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He was now living with an Indian woman of the Flat-head tribe , by whom he had several children , and this was also a subject upon which the western farmers had much to say . Had the squaw been a Creek , a Cherokee , or an Osage woman , it would have created no surprise ; but how came he in possession of a woman belonging to so distant a tribe ? Moreover , the squaw looked so proud , so imperious , so queenly ; there was a mystery , which every one was anxious , but unable to solve . We left our host early in the morning , and arrived at noon at the hot springs , where I was to part company with my entertaining companions . I was , however , persuaded to remain till the next morning , as Finn wished to give me a letter for a friend of his in South Missouri . Of the hot springs of the Arkansas , I can give no better description , than by quoting the following lines from a Little Rock newspaper : -- `` The warm springs are among the most interesting curiosities of our country : they are in great numbers . One of them , the central one , emits a vast quantity of water ; the ordinary temperature is that of boiling water .