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with their shotguns and killed several of hem, 

 and we had a regular feast of antelope and 

 duck for supper. 



In the morning we harnessed up again and. 

 started in a northwesterly direction and trav- 

 eled until we came to Bear Creek, where we 

 once more camred for the night, and in the 

 morning moved on again. When we had 

 pfone about a mile we discovered fine butlalo. 

 These were the tinest we had seen on the trip 

 and the English gentlemen were very anxious 

 to kill them all, and jumped out of the car- 

 riage and str.rted boldly toward them, very 

 much as if they thought the buffalo w^ould be 

 glad to see them, but when they were within 

 about a quarter of a mile of them the buffalo 

 raised their heads, and, taking a short look, 

 galloped off, leaving the nabobs sadly disap- 

 pointed. When they complained of their bad 

 luck to me I told them that they had done 

 much better than I expected, as I thought they 

 would frighten them away before they got 

 half so near. They gave the buffalo up rather 

 reluctantly and kept up a continual firing at 



