.MTAwOA.NjY1Mzc

furious rain storm visited us. On the 6th we continued our course S.W. to the Canadian river. This is a wide, shallow stream, the entire bed consisting of quicksand bars. We found it swolen with recent heavy rains and the usual ford washed out until it was fifteen or twenty feet deep. Not wishing to be be detained in our march until the river should subside, we explored the chanel by riding in horses and feeling about for the shallow places until we succeeded in finding a new crossing which we improved by cutting away the trees and digging down the bank so as to make the approach easy for wagons. By four? o'clock P.M. we were comfortably in camp on the South bank, having made but 13 miles. This Canadian river is a very long stream, one of the main branches of the Arkansas. It is easily crossed at almost any point if one keeps moving, but the moment you halt the sand gives way and you commence to sink. It is the boundary between the Creek and Chickasaw nations at the point where we crossed and we now found ourselves facing this latter people.