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CHAPTER VI. 



GOOD LUCK MORE INDIANS SOME OF THEM 



DIE SUDDENLY WHITE WOMEN's SCALPS 



HOW THE INDIANS HUNT BUFFALO THE 



yOYS OF AN INDIAN SQUAW, ETC. 



Riley and I hunted about four weeks, dur- 

 ing which time we killed and dried about one 

 hundred buffalo. The game soon left and 

 moved about one hundred miles east, near the 

 heads of several streams, viz.: Salim, Sappy, 

 Soloman, Prairie Dog, Beaver and Big Tim- 

 ber. We followed them and secured great 

 numbers. Here we fell in with three other 

 men, which increased our number to live. 

 We were hunting together, and one day left 

 one man at the camp to smoke meat while 

 the rest of us took the team and went out for 

 buffalo. As he was out gathering fuel on 

 that particular morning, he heard a racket in 

 the camp, and, supposing that we were driving 

 in, stepped back to see what we were coming 



