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ELETVENTH. Poor Kansas! (?) ' The game was tame (?), The buffaloes were lame (?); The State had no rain (?), The homesteader no gain (?); 'Twas a confounded shame That he settled the plain (?). HERE IS no record left by those whose memory this narration desires to perpetuate relative to the names of the various clans or native prov- inces they visited, except ^that of "Chief Tatarrax, who ruled over Har- ahey"; also the province of Arache, (or Arahei), Axa, Ilaxa and Harale,"but no name which can with any cortaiaty be made conformable to the present ones. Yet there is extant history which heretofore has been spoken of, for is not Father Marquette's map drawn in the year 1673, still at Montreal, and does it not designate aU the tribes as we know them, giving their locations so there can be no doubt of the terri- tory occupied by each nation? Ci; course, the Rev-