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Black Hills. I assume that my special orders to escort the scientific people exhonorates me from obedience to the general order for if I have to race around the country looking for miners I must neglect the true object of my trip here - unclear I have not men enough to arrest & send in all these parties without endangering my command -- Still I would rather not meet them - unclear the adj? asked permission to go up & see them & I let him go - As he did not return in a reasonable