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"Do you suspect anything wrong, e in such sniffing of the air?"

"'Tis a spot I knoell, now it loo to peer about like one suddenly aroused from sleep "It was near here the Philistines ns now of huhborhood"

His words startledanxiously about us The low shores consisted of the rown heavily with stunted bushes and brown cane, but so firmer soil The opposite side of the strea, except that therocks visible, one rising sheer froe, so croith bushes as scarcely to expose the rock surface to the eye

"I discover no evidences of life," I answered at last, reassured by my careful survey "Nor, for the h to camp upon"

"Up the stream a few strokes the Spaniards had cah the current will prove difficult to overcouidance we deflected the boat's head, and, by hard toil at the oars, slowly effected a passage up the swift strea the southern shore, until, having co like five hundred yards, we found before us a low-lying bank, protected by rushes, dry and thickly carpeted with grass

"What is the streae of the water

"The Spaniards named it the Arkansas"

"Oh, ay! I re the other shore It was here soo, I 'm told The stream has trend northward"

"So the Spaniards clai; they knew little of its upper waters, yet possessed a ues froreat river It was yonder they were encae of higher ground, where two trees hung like sentinels above the bank Mada our heads loe shot beneath their trailing branches, grounding softly on the red clay of the bank A brief search disclosed remains of camp-fires, testimony to the Puritan's remembrance of the spot Evidently the place had been frequently occupied, and by sizable parties, yet the ns that any one had been there lately