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than for carrying or drawing heavy burthens, and none 

 that I saw could have borne me with any ease up to a 

 bison. I should, therefore, counsel all hunters seeking 

 the prairies, if they ride above lOst., not to listen to the 

 advice of obtaining horses out among the Indian tribes 

 for the purposes of hunting, but to select them from the 

 last frontier town ere they set foot upon the plains. 

 Tired with the exertions of the day, I went early to my 

 blankets, and slept till sunrise the next morning. 



