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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
From this trading post they went on in the afternoon to Cary mission, a distance of about ten miles. It hap pened to be Sunday when they arrived there, and they found about one hundred Indian boys enjoying themselves outdoors, who were pleased see four white men ride up on horseback; and they expressed their de light in Indian boy fashion, hooting and yelling, and taking hold of the! bridles and stirrups, and even of the. ponies' tails, which they were allowed to do, as the party knew that they meant no mischief, but rather friendship by it. Gen. Brown rode a large saddle-horse, which he had brought from the east, and the boys did not seem to want to take hold of his tail, as the did of those of the Indian ponies, which the rest of the party rode, and to which kind of horses they were more accustomed. The party stayed some time at the mission, enjoying the hospitality of Mr McCoy, the principal of the station, and his wife. They and the other missionaries and their wives, and the assistants, seemed to live in com mon with the Indians—only that there was some difference between the
supply of the table "above the salt" for the whites at their end of the table, from what it was "below the salt" for the Indians at their end, as well as some difference in manners and fashion of eating.
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