The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.