A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.