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little time, he does not know how positive-h- 

 and almost painfully hungry for flesh he be- 

 comes, no matter how much farinaceous 

 food he may have. And the very toil I had 

 been obliged to go through, in order to 

 procure the head, made me feel all the 

 prouder of it when it was at last in my 

 possession. 



A year later I made another trip, this 

 time with a wagon, through what had once 

 been a famous buffalo range, the divide be- 

 tween the Little Missouri and the Powder,at 

 its northern end, where some of the creeks 

 flowing into the Yellowstone also head up ; 

 but though in most places throughout the 

 range the grass had not yet grown from the 

 time a few months before when it had been 

 cropped off down close to the roots by the 

 grazing herds, and though the ground was 

 cut up in all directions by buffalo trails, and 

 covered by their innumerable skulls and 

 skeletons, not a living one did we see, and 

 only one moderately fresh track, which we 

 followed until we lost it. Some ot the 



