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they numbered 100 Warriors some 10 years since - - now about 50 or 60 - Some "Muscovy" Indians have took them - These are the bow & arrow - but the Rifle is their principal arm in hunting Bidais live & hunt about Cincinnati and the prairies towards Lake ? Montgomery - there are but five of these: less than the Cashatties. Kickapoos some are found between Swartout & Cincinnati - they are better than the former ? but few wild fruits have been discovered as yet about these lands seen the Plum and Peach this last is "Meat & butter (No peccan) - of woods the principal is Pine - then White & black oak, Hickory, Wild China Mulberry, Black Walnut not much, Magnolia, Post oak, Cane -? Bears, ? Panthers, deer, coons, opposums, Leopard cats, Pole cats, Skunks, Snakes etc etc etc 2 PM Started - Got lost for some time in a thick cane brake - 7 pm got to Mr. Linley's & put up for the night - Saturday 16th - Roads bad & ? Noon got to Mr. Smiths - Mr Phipps took to the "Sulky" and some 10 or 12 miles on the road - It was broken

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