[May 9--26th day] Sunday I sat at the window observing every team & every person, for I thought surely they would come to day, while they at the same time were looking as hard for me. Loyd having got no tidi[ngs] of me over the river; went to every church in the town, & looked if I was there, but not seeing me, he went to the P. O. once more, & tearing off some score of letters he found the desired information, & in a few moments he was at the door; & "the lost was found," all was soon explained, we eat our dinner, which was to be out last at a table for some time. We went down, crossed over the river, after having procured several articles to complete our outfit, found our team already on the opposite bank ready to start, our other team from Calhoun Co.[25] was in waiting to accompany us, they had fallen in company with our folk & George[26] being acquainted with them, & as we had never heard from Mr. Besser we were glad of their company, but there was no woman with them, but 5 men one waggon 4 yoke of splendid cattle, they were merry fellows and as we came up they joked us not a little about our looking for each other at the same time. & congratulated us upon our success. FOOTNOTES: [14] On the Missouri River, from St. Louis to St. Joseph. [15] The "Martha Jewett," of which W. C. Jewett was master, began her trips on the Missouri River in 1852. She was "one of the finest and most popular boats on the river in her day." [16] Boonville, the county seat of Cooper Co., Mo. [17] The "Saluda," a side-wheel steamer with double engine and two boilers, having a capacity of 233 tons, was built in 1846. She exploded at Lexington, Mo., on the morning of April 9, 1852, only eighteen days prior to the above observation of Mrs. Frizzell.--_Chappell. History of the Missouri River, 1906, p. 52, 74._ [18] Kansas City. [19] Fort Leavenworth, two miles north of the city of Leavenworth, Kan., situate on Rattlesnake Hills, was first occupied as a cantonment in 1827, and became a regular fort of the U. S. government about 1832. [20] Cannon.--_Original note_. [21] Mrs. Frizzell made an error at this point, numbering the day as the "18th", instead of 15th, which led to a misnumbering throughout. It has been corrected here. [22] Potawatomi and Winnebago. [23] An original note names him "Major Stemmons, of Rockport, Mo." This is evidently an error for _Slemmons_, a family-name that is yet found in Atchison County. [24] An allusion to the Knight of Snowdoun in Scott's _The Lady of the Lake_. [25] Calhoun Co., Ill. [26] One of her sons. CHAPTER III FROM ST. JOSEPH TO FT. KEARNEY