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care had been assigned the transportation on the Mis-
souri River, a distance of two hundred and fifty miles, by
river, from St. Joseph to Omaha; and also the subsistence
of the entire party until its return to Saint Joseph.

Two of the largest class Missouri River packets—the
Denver, Captain Waddell, and the Colorado, Captain
Hooper—with an additional band of music on board,
were in readiness to receive the party on its arrival at
Saint Joseph; and the excursionists soon found them-
selves, with bands playing and colors flying, steaming up
the great Missouri River, which, for many hundred miles
of its turbid, snaggy, barry, winding course, forms the
western boundary of the Atlantic portion of the United
States.

The journey from Saint Joseph to Omaha was accom-
plished, without serious accident or detention, in less than
forty-eight hours; and the party reached the eastern
terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad on Monday morn-
ing, the 22d of October, having been on the way from
New York a little less than one week.

Some idea of the manner. in which the excursionists
were subsisted under the supervision of Professor Hoxie,
while passing up the Missouri River, may be formed by a
perusal of the following bills of fare on board the
steamers -—