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See Letter 2 Moses Crow. In one of our rambles the other day, Auntie & I found one of the most extreme cases of suffering I ever witnessed among the Indians. The log house might have been 10 ft. square - the one room containing 2 beds - and a population varying. I should judge from 6 to a doz. in the family. - none of them especially neat in their habits. As we entered the inhabitants seemed to be holding a consultation regarding some perplexing matter. Dark glances being frequently directed to one corner of the room. We looked there too - I can never forget the look of willful entreaty that met us from a man lying upon some straw in that miserable room. We found him perfectly helpless, unable to move either hand, or arm, or to sit up a moment - and there he had lain 3 months. Not even a blanket between that aching bruised back & the floor. One hand decaying & dropping off. The mortification had reached the 2nd part of the fingers. The least jar of the room painful to him. The hand & arm so swollen that you could not possibly