A Trip tdthe Salt Plains ,f the Red Fork of


the Arkanae.
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the Arkan;as.


Mr.. CLhKE II have US returned home from
my wes;en tour; ii is my wish 10 furnish you
with shon sketch, trusting hat to some of your
readers it Wi not be devoid If interest,"


Some TIM past, Delawan by the name of Bill
ly Wilson, no has since ben murdered by
runaway pay of negroes, wio left the Cherokee
nation in thopring of '43, inbrmed me that there
existed wihN the limits Of the Creek nation a
Suit Plain, s,posed to be about fifty miles South.
east Of tho f. pous Salt Plain high up the Arkan-
sas. on Seine ine river.


Beng desir to ascertainthe truth, he collect
ed small pay of men, amng them myself, nd
set out in the search. W. progressed slowly
the first four five days. our men coming tooeth-
er as we travad on. We Suffered no inconveni.
ence from wat of provisions. And the streams
having all SORT time previously been swollen
by rain, nfiordtus an immediate supply of water
On the fourth y of our departure, we were over.
taken by our Aent, Capt. Dawson, and the u.
S. Interpreter, -tnes Henry. Our party, which
numbered eleveA was then complete, and we took
even and unilorri ma rches. lveraging daily fifty
miles. -


We computed b distanceto the Salt Plains, as
we travelled it, to one hundred and eighty miles
from the Creek tency. in Southwest direc-
w" "'o"Sn "e7Pheu mt lue uIsl""eo eou'u
not be more than se hundred and fifty miles on a
bee line'' But strike this bee limo was an
imposslblIty, nonef US beirg at all acquainted
with our route, befe our trip. We had proceed.
ed ninety Or a hum led mile, ere we discovered
any game, and thatyas of small class, such as
deer and tEkies; I'll latter we found in great
abundance and conAued so throughout the re.
maihder Of our waH .a.


Sixty mihs farhetravel brought us to traces
Of bufinlo; We discofsd their "sgn," and in
ten miles fond the Hfalo in great numbers
We soon gained theborth branch of the Red
Fork, about midday Ind struck camp upon its
banks instantf, all ofhs being eager for a chase
and shot at tn, bufalolafge herds of which were
plainly to DO zen fee}ng on the prairie. CamT
once pitched, I'D the rck horses relieved of thei,
burthens, the chse o&nenced in earnest. HUI
"a there's son,thing 1rapgely string in the pur
suit Of 20 rarc ad hue an animals as the buffalo