Chapter 50
Rough Wintry Travelling--Hills and Plains.--Snow and Ice.-- Disappearance of Game.--A Vast Dreary Plain.--A. Second Halt for the Winter.--Another Wigwam.--New Year's Feast.--Buffalo Humps, Tongues, and Marrow-Bones.--Return of Spring.--Launch of Canoes.--Bad Navigation.--Pedestrian March.--Vast Prairies.--Deserted Camps.--Pawnee Squaws.--An Otto Indian.--News of War.--Voyage Down the Platte and the Missouri.--Reception at Fort Osage.--Arrival at St. Louis. THE interval of comfort and repose which the party had enjoyed in their wigwam, rendered the renewal of their fatigues intolerable for the first two or three days. The snow lay deep, and was slightly frozen on the surface, but not sufficiently to bear their weight. Their feet became sore by breaking through the crust, and their limbs we
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