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[[underlined]] Devils Lake to Sweetwater Lakes [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 10 [[/underlined]]. Broke camp & by 8 AM were on the road. Caught only Erotomys, Microtus & Peromyscus.

Half way to the Mission we drove through an Indian camp in a beautiful spot on the prairie, overlooking a lake, the Devilsheart Butte & Sully's Hill and no end of rolling prairie. The white tepees glistened in the sun & the picturesque Sioux standing or squatting on the ground Other tepees were seen near the little houses of the Indians, put up for summer use, just as the gray squirrels build summer nests in the trees to get rid of the fleas that swarm in their winter houses.

The old Mission stands in the woods on the south side of the lake but is not a very attractive spot. Seems lonesome & illkept. The woods are brushy and the houses & buildings very common. The church might be of any little country town & the school would pass for a little wayside hotel.