[136] This is the correct orthography; the meaning is, more accurately, Salted Meat Bayou. See Nuttall's _Journal_, note 187.--ED. [137] _Ixodes molestus._--_Body_ reddish brown, punctured, orbicular very slightly approaching ovate; _scutus_ rounded or sub-angular, hardly attaining the middle of the body, and with two distinct, indented, longitudinal lines; _tergum_, with about four dilated, black, distinct radii behind the middle; margin from near the middle of the side, with ten or twelve impressed, acute, equal, equidistant lines, which do not crenate the edge or upper surface. Length rather more than 1/20 of an inch.--JAMES. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES The text and chapter headings include Original Edition page numbers and chapter numbers in { }. For example {212} Chapter I {VIII}. Footnotes are in [ ], for example [12]. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Inconsistent spelling of a word or word-pair within the text has been retained. For example, southeast south-east; gray grey; prairie dog prairie-dog. Spelling has been left as found in the original text, except for those changes noted below. Note that some names are spelled differently in the main text and in a footnote; this difference is retained (for example, Le Sueur and Lesueur). Pg 5 'Cottonwood' changed to 'Cotton-wood' for consistency. Pg 5 'Thunderstorm' changed to 'Thunder-storm' for consistency. Pg 28 and 29 'Viellot' changed to 'Vieillot' for consistency. Pg 30 'sand-stone' changed to 'sandstone' for consistency. Pg 76 'harrassed' changed to 'harassed'. Pg 118 'abcesses' changed to 'abscesses'. Pg 237 New paragraph after comma, left unchanged. Pg 247 'S.W.' changed to 'S. W.' for consistency. Pg 251 'Nesuhetonga' changed to 'Nesuketonga'. Footnote 13 'Epeditions' changed to 'Expeditions'. Footnote 51 'the' inserted before 'Canadian'. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XVI, by Various