6 A.M. Camp 46. m. E. B. 26.90 calm. clear.
T. 44"
8 P.M. Camp 69.m. E. B. 26.92 N.N.W. light.
T. 56"

Sept 23. Left camp on horseback with Ashe to try duck shooting by the way, but found swamps nearly all dry & soon returned to teams & left gun on buckboard. Went up the prominent butte S. of the road about 5.m. E. of camping place of last night. It is raised perhaps 200 feet above general level of country & commands a wide view but a monotonous one. There is however no further escarpment of the high level plateau. Visible to the north, & nothing but an expanse of undulating Coteauî hills which look from a height & on the grand scale wonderfully monotonous. A very large stone circle on the top of the butte resembling the ordinary tepe circles of the indians but evidently having belonged to a Great Medicine lodge such as that described & figured by Catlin. Diameter 40 paces (horse). Drove ahead in the afternoon with Ashe to shoot on the branch of the Souris on which we camp, but found the pools so small that no ducks were to be seen. Got a badger by the way & skinned him in the evening.

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