4½ Miles below . The<y> landed at the tavern on the south side of the , and took me into a back room: threw down a buffalo robe for my bed, but as my arms were bound so tight that I could not rest I Complained: ToldMiddleton Middleton thus was not the way he was used at My house. The<y> felt of <at> my arms and exclaimed:— By God their not too tight. I beg[g]ed to have one arm liberated, and finally they untied both, and I slept (under guard) on the buffalo <robe> before the fire.
About noon they got ready and started with me bound <my guard ◊d> upon a horse, for McCoy’s about 12 miles distant, in Clark Co Mo. It being night when we arrived, and I unwell through fatigue and confinement, <and the abuses befor recd> I went to bed. The<y> had sent runners ahead and, after I had been in bed awhile, the Sheriff came up from Waterloo, the County Seat, a distance of about 2 miles to [p. [4]]