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41 on nothing much superior to the Indian women, with their dark complexion & high cheek bones, & disgusting figures it is certainly very refreshing to meet a young lady of refinement & a respectable degree of beauty. My situation therefore excuses this eulogium on the merits of Miss Mary MLane. As This fair one stood by me on the porch of her fathers dwelling, having respectively ministered to our inner selves by partaking of the aforesaid dinner we descried at a distance on the prarie a long mass? of dark colour creeping slowly across the prarie, & as they approached nearer & nearer we descried crossed out - the company a detachment of dragoons under command of the redoubtable Leut.t Gardner, having in charge? seven Winnebagoes whom they had arrested in attempting