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emigrants there, most of them had good teams 

 and some were anxious to go out on a hunt. 

 I told them I would give them half the meat 

 for hauling it in, and there was no trouble in 

 finding persons ready to accept my offer. 

 They mustered up three teams and we started 

 out with ten men and three women, all inspired 

 with eager anticipation of something outside 

 of their usual line of life. ^We went out about 

 twenty-five miles and camped for the night. 

 While the men were preparing for the night 

 and the women getting supper I went and 

 killed a very large buffalo. They almost went 

 into ecstasies over it, and it was not long until 

 we had several nice slices of the tenderloin 

 fried and ready for distribution. 



We moved on the next day, as the women 

 complained of the water, which was alkali, 

 and started to a good spring which was about 

 ten miles farther on. When we reached the 

 spring we discovered a band of Indians camped 

 near it. As soon as they saw us they picked 

 up and lek iVz'v meat roasting on the fire. 

 We moved on to the spring, but I could hardly 



