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Regimem Of The q s. .qrmy, dlted Naaelaa


'tAagc, tpper Missouri, July 27, 1925.


81 have written twice since we left the Big
Bend, but for want of a conveyance, have been
compelled to commit them to the "dark and
turbulent waves of the Missouri as one of orr
Missouri editors termsit. The Sioux and Chyans,
1--WE met them at the Little Missouri) were aston
ished at our Artillery, as displayed mounted,
The battery passed in review atfull speed at
trot. Most ofthc Chyans never saw white per-
son before, not even the traders of this country.
They are the finest and widest looking Ind ans
we have yet seen; they are the genuine children
of nature; they have, unlike other Indians, all
the virtues that nature can give, without the vices
OF civilization. These must be the men des-
cribed by Rousseau, when he gained the medal
from the Royal Academy in France. They are