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necessary for this purpose, as minerals, so they say here, 

 will not answer. I drew at Mr. Culbertson's portrait till 

 he was tired enough ; his wife — a pure Indian — is much 

 interested in my work. Bell and Sprague, after some 

 long talk with Harris about geological matters, of which 

 valuable science he knows a good deal, went off to seek a 

 Wolf's hole that Sprague had seen some days before, but 

 of which, with his usual reticence, he had not spoken. 

 Sprague returned with a specimen of rattle-snake root, 

 which he has already drawn. Bell saw a Wolf munching 

 a bone, approached it and shot at it. The Wolf had been 

 wounded before and ran off slowly, and Bell after it. 

 Mr. Culbertson and I saw the race; Bell gained on the 

 Wolf until within thirty steps when he fired again; the 

 Wolf ran some distance further, and then fell; but Bell 

 was now exhausted by the heat, which was intense, and 

 left the animal where it lay without attempting to skin 

 it. Squires and Provost returned this afternoon about 

 three o'clock, but the first alone had killed a doe. It 

 was the first one he had ever shot, and he placed seven 

 buckshot in her body. Owen went off one way, and 

 Harris and Bell another, but brought in nothing. Prov- 

 ost went off to the Opposition camp, and when he re- 

 turned told me that a Porcupine was there, and would be 

 kept until I saw it; so Harris drove me over, at the usual 

 breakneck pace, and I bought the animal. Mr. Collins is 

 yet poorly, their hunters have not returned, and they are 

 destitute of everything, not having even a medicine chest. 

 We told him to send a man back with us, which he did, 

 and we sent him some medicine, rice, and two bottles of 

 claret. The weather has been much cooler and pleasanter 

 than yesterday. 



July 9, Sunday . I drew at a Wolf's head, and Sprague 

 worked at a view of the fort for Mr. Culbertson. I also 

 worked on Mr. Culbertson's portrait about an hour. I 

 then worked at the Porcupine, which is an animal such as 



