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lope and eleven buffalo, which, considering 

 the circumstances, did pretty well. 



When I arrived at Lakin I found two 

 sportsmen from Connecticutt waiting for me. 

 They wanted me to go merely as a pilot and 

 they w^nnted to do all the shooting themselves. 

 They had an armory of six guns: two 

 breech-loading shot-guns, two breech-loading 

 rifles and two 1 8-inch rifles. They were to 

 give me three dollars a day as long as we were 

 out, and as soon as I was rested we started 

 south of the Arkansas River about twenty 

 miles. Their forte seemed to be the shot-gun, 

 and they wanted to go where there was plenty 

 of fowls. It was new to me to see men want to 

 get after ducks and snipes where they can 

 find plenty of antelope and buffalo, but they 

 wanted fowls and I found what they wanted. 

 I took them to a large lake that was alive 

 with ducks and kendricks. The kendrick is 

 about the size of the guinea fowl, and its flesh 

 is delicate and finely flavored. There was 

 also a kind of snipe about the size of a quail, 

 and its flesh is excellent. What with ken- 



