Sunday 30 Sept. [Traveled 6 miles from Riddle Hill to Island Grove, Illinois. We left McCoy’s Milles at about 9 o’clock and at 12 reached Island Grove, the place of our encampment, 6 miles distance from the camp of last night. Our march was made necessarily short on account of the scarcity of water — this being the only watering place nearer than 10 or 15 miles. The death of a child occurred a few hours after our encampment. Health of the sick still improving. Provisions and subsistence good and healthy. Indians still bring in large quantities of game – sufficient for their subsistence – and they greatly prefer such provisions as they acquire by the chase. One of the dragoons [soldiers]

was dismissed last night for intoxication – Nothing of the kind is permitted.