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within h;iU d mile of water. Men who are 

 unacquaiatecl v-ith the phiins hav^e no business 

 on them without a pilot. There are springs 

 that nev^er go chy, but a person who did n;)t 

 know their location might die within a few 

 steps oi one. There are many persons 

 Irom the East who go out on the plains with- 

 out a guide, and, not being acquainted with 

 the lay of the land, suffer exceedingly' for 

 want of water, and some times even die from 

 thirst. Besides this, mosc emigrants, and per 

 sons from the East, who go out (,n the plains 

 for butfalo, come armed with squirrel rifles 

 and shot-guns, and if thav were to find ever 

 SD many buflalo it would be almost impossible 

 t«) kill them. True they might occasional! v 

 get one with the squirrel gun, but it ^vould be 

 a rare occurrence, and a man might work 

 with a shot-gun a year and then not get a 

 buflalo. 



It any of my readers ever conclude to take 

 a buflalo hunt on the plains, they need not 

 start out by themselves with a rusty shot-gun, 

 and I would advise they to employ a pilot. 



