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draw toward them. I could only see the top ot 

 their humps, and I thought they were comirig 

 toward me. I ran on, and, all at once, I ran 

 into a gang of squaws taking care of their 

 horses. I then knew what my buffaloes w^ere. 

 The}^ were Indians crawling up a small ridge 

 which pointed down to the draw where I 

 was. I saw that I was in a close place and 

 got out as soon as I could. When I got back 

 to the wagon and told him that what I took 

 to be buffaloes were Indians, he looked 

 frio'htened and asked if I thouo^ht there was 

 an}^ danger of them coming after us. I re- 

 plied that if they did we could kill as many of 

 them as they could of us. This seemed to 

 be rather poor consolation to him, and he said 

 that he could not see how that would comfort 

 a dead man. While yet talking of the Indians 

 I saw a herd of buffalo come in sight. We 

 killed four and caught one calf We then 

 loaded our meat in the wagon and took it to 

 to Pierceville, the nearest station. Here we 

 found a company of soldiers looking for the 

 Indians I had seen the day before. 



