"[We] Met near LaBonte [creek], about eight miles east, about 500 Arapahoes going to [Fort] Laramie. It is about half of one village, and we are told we shall meet the other half tomorrow. Men, women, children, horses, teepee poles & skins, colts and dogs, of the usual lupine aspect. Several old men, very aged and greyheaded, are drawn upon the litters formed of ten poles. Some of the women and many of the children are borne in this way. They are all pretty well clad, a number of the men in some articles of army clothes. One woman has a dress made of a flour sack, with the brand "Five Handily Horn" upon her back. Many of the women, as they passed, with that blessed modesty which the world over characterizes the sex, covered their faces with one hand."

"When we get to a camp one of the men kills a deer, and all come. Sends us a steak."