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10 have not the least doubt of its notwithstanding his age and infirmaties he managed to ask us for"money". as we went out ot the wigwam we each slipped a piece of silver into his hand he returned his thanks by giving us a harty shake of his hand. After ???? interruption we resumed our journey, we passed across several smaller streams this day we travelled about twenty five miles and reached the town of Marysville one hundred miles from St Joe at nightfall. We camped on the banks of the Big Blue river which runs through the town, it is a very nice stream having the peculiar characteristic of all Kansas rivers, viz, about one foot deep twenty wide and clear running water with a gravelly bottom the water is cool and tastes first rate. In the neighborhood of this river the bluffs are almost as high as those on the shore of the Missouri. the town has a very fine site on the bluffs commanding a view of the prairis for miles on every side. It is a place of some imprtance being the last outfitting place for immigrants for Pikes Peak, Utah and California and the residence of the Government Inspector of goods for U.S. troops in the west. the trains are here examined to ascertain that the supplys are all right and to prevent the shipment of any contraband article at the expense of Government. The town has a population of about one thousand and one pretty respectable looking street and some first rate stores a newspaper office Land Office a few lawyers and some doctors. After looking all about the town we packed up and turned again westward our first job was to get across the Big Blue aa very difficult undertaking with our heavily loaded wagon there is a very steep descent of about one hundred feet to the bed of the river in the middle a bed of quicksand and a hill to raise on the other side however we hitched four horses to each wagon and