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days we arrived with liirn at Cowdersport. We 

 there settled with Lyman, he to be one-half owner 

 of the elk, and Campbell and myself, each a quarter. 

 Lyman sold one-half his share to a man named 

 Waterman, for two hundred and fifty dollars, the elk 

 being valued at a thousand dollars. We all four 

 went with him to Olean, forty miles distant, where 

 we obtained twelve dollars by exhibiting him. We 

 then exhibited him at a place six miles farther, and 

 made six dollars more. At the latter place a man 

 bet five dollars that he could hold him by grasping 

 his nose with one hand, with his other arm around 

 his horns. He lost the money, however, the animal 

 striking him in the back with one of its hind feet, so 

 severely that it drew blood, 



December tenth, 1818, I started out on an elk- 

 catching expedition, accompanied by John Camp- 

 bell, Joseph Darling, and an Indian named Billy 

 Fox. The first day, Campbell killed a fine, fat deer, 

 and in the evening, at a distance of seven miles from 

 home, we regaled ourselves with a steak from it. 

 The following day we dismissed Darling, and sent 

 Fox to hunt for an elk-track, while Campbell and I 

 dried meat. Fox crossed Kenzua Creek, and went 

 in the direction of Stump Creek, where he found a 

 track. He ascertained its direction, and returned to 

 the camp. The next morning, as there was bright 

 moonlight, we started at three o'clock. We followed 

 the track but a short distance, as it was an old one. 

 We ascended a hill, and found the track of an elk 

 which had passed that morninc After following 



