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feet deep. One of the soldiers dismounted, 

 threw out a fi^h Hne and soon took a line fish. 

 This caused quite an excitement, and the 

 captain said we would have a mess of fish. 

 We turned our horses out and remained here 

 until noon the next day, when, after going 

 through the customary dress parade, we 

 started lor Fort Dodge, which we reached 

 Vv'ithout the loss of a man, and without finding 

 any use for the surgeon or the ambulance. 

 Here I received my discharge — I had put in 

 four days — and went back to PiercevUle. 

 This Indian chase is a fair sample of the man- 

 ner in which the government troops out here 

 hunt Indians. One old hunter is worth a 

 dozen soldiers in an Indian chase an}' time. 



When I orot back to Pierceville one ol mv 

 horses had been snake bitten and was not lit 

 for use, but, as there were plenty of emigrants 

 passing through, I found one whom I hired to 

 take his team and go with me. He was about 

 fifty years old, and had never seen a buffalo. 

 Everything was new to him, and he saw 

 many wondrous sights. We camped the 



