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of so many people & danced about on his hind legs. Took in passengers at a little town called Lake Providence, which has the River on one side & lake and the other. Here during the war Grant had a cannal dug from the River to the Lake thus [?] overflowing the Lake & causing much destruction of property between this point & Red River Had an entertainment by "King Rex" this evening , which consisted of songs - imitations of all kinds of animals & buzz saws &c