Incidents of a Return Trip from Santa Fé -- Calibre of our Party -- Return Caravans -- Remittances -- Death of Mr. Langham -- Burial in the Desert -- A sudden Attack -- Confusion in the Camp -- The Pawnees -- A Wolfish Escort -- Scarcity of Buffalo -- Unprofitable Delusion -- Arrival -- Table of Camping Sites and Distances -- Condition of the Town of Independence -- The Mormons -- Their Dishonesty and Immorality -- Their high-handed Measures, and a Rising of the People -- A fatal Skirmish -- A chivalrous Parade of the Citizens -- Expulsion of the Mormons -- The Meteoric Shower, and Superstition, etc. -- Wanderings and Improprieties of the 'Latter-day Saints' -- Gov. Boggs' Recipe -- The City of Nauvoo -- Contemplated Retribution of the Mormons, 87 CHAPTER XVII {I of Vol. II, original ed.} A Return to Prairie Life -- Abandonment of the regular Route -- The Start -- A Suicide -- Arrest of a Mulatto for Debt -- Cherokee 'Bankrupt Law' -- Chuly, the Creek Indian -- The Muster and the Introduction -- An '_Olla Podrida_' -- Adventure of a 'Down-Easter' -- Arrival of U. S. Dragoons -- Camp Holmes, and the Road -- A Visit from a Party of Comanches -- Tabba-quena, a noted Chief -- His extraordinary Geographical Talent -- Indians set out for the 'Capitan Grande,' and we through an unexplored Region -- Rejoined by Tabba-quena and his '_suite_' -- Spring Valley -- The Buffalo Fever -- The Chase -- A Green-horn Scamper -- Prairie Fuel, 99 CHAPTER XVIII {II of Vol. II} Travelling out of our Latitude -- The Buffalo-gnat -- A Kiawa and Squaw -- Indian _crim. con._ Affair -- Extraordinary Mark of confidence in the White Man -- A Conflagration -- An Espy Shower -- Region of Gypsum -- Our Latitude -- A Lilliputian Forest -- A Party of Comanches -- A Visit to a 'Dog-Town' -- Indian Archery -- Arrival of Comanche Warriors -- A 'Big Talk' and its Results -- Speech of the _Capitan Mayor_ -- Project of bringing Comanche Chiefs to Washington -- Return of Lieut. Bowman, and our March resumed -- Melancholy Reflections -- Another Indian Visit -- Mexican Captives -- Voluntary Captivity -- A sprightly Mexican Lad -- Purchase of a Captive -- Comanche Trade and Etiquette -- Indians least dangerous to such as trade with them, 114 CHAPTER XIX {III of Vol. II}