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across a fellow with a team, and I hired him 

 to take my load in to Sargeant Station a :d 

 ship it to Lakin, and I drove on. We traveled 

 east a few miles and stopped on a small lake 

 where the buffalo and antelope were watering. 

 During the night several antelope came near 

 us to get water, and the editor shot one ot 

 them, his first, and, so lar as I know, his only 

 antelope. About lo o'clock the horse we had 

 picketed near us suddenly began to snort and 

 act very much frightened. I sprang to my 

 teet thinging that the Indians were on us, but 

 was surprised to see a large herd of buffalo 

 within fifty yards of us coming for water. 

 There were plenty of them within a few feet 

 us, and they surrounded the wagon and so 

 frightened one of our horses that he broke 

 loose. I could easily have killed several but 

 was afraid that it would frighten the horse 

 still more and make him leave us entirely, 

 and I could only stand and look at them. x\s 

 soon as they passed I went and got the horse 

 and we again lay down, but in a few minutes 

 a single buffalo came down for a drink and I 



