disappear over the falls in a few minutes. They afford
excellent food for the wolves, bears, and birds of prey;
which circumstance may account for the reluctance of the
bears to yield their dominion over the neighborhood.

"The pirogue was drawn up a little below our camp, and
secured in a thick copse of willow-bushes. We now began
to form a cache or place of deposit, and to dry our goods
and other articles which required inspection. The wagons
are completed. Our hunters brought us ten deer, and we
shot two out of a herd of buffalo that came to water at
Sulphur Spring. There is a species of gooseberry, growU+
ing abundantly among the rocks on the sides of the cliffs.
It is now ripe, of a pale red color, about the size of the
common gooseberry, and like it is an ovate pericarp of
soft pulp enveloping a number of small whitish seeds, and
consisting of a yellowish, slimy, mucilaginous substance,
with a sweet taste; the surface of the berry is covered
glutinous, adhesive matter, and its fruit, though ripe,
retains its withered corolla. The shrub itself seldom rises
more than two feet high, is much branched, and has no
thorns. The leaves resemble those of the common gooseU+
berry, except in being smaller, and the berry is supported
by separate peduncles or foot-stalks half an inch long.
There are also immense quantities of grasshoppers, of a
brown color, on the plains; they, no doubt, contribute to
the lowness of the grass, which is not generally more than
three inches high, though it is soft, narrow-leaved, and
affords a fine pasture for the buffalo."

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