126 ANOTHER EXPEDITION TO WHITE ROCK. 



CHAPTER X. 



Another expedition to White Rock. A fighting butcher. The fate of 

 Fox. Excitement about Indiana. Advised to turn back. Settlement 

 No. 10 at White Rock. Bold settlers. Examine buffaloes at close 

 quarters. The bold settlers demoralized. A large herd of elk. 

 Desperate struggle with a horse. Laid up from a kick. The fate 

 of our buffalo-tongues. Settlers about to avenge themselves. Their 

 indifferent armament. A serious consultation. The expedition given 

 up. I intend going alone to Fort Kearney. 



I RETURNED to St. Joe in the spring to meet a friend from 



England, whom I will call F , and we arranged to make 



another expedition to the White Rock country, going further 

 west than we had done the year before. We determined to 

 buy everything ourselves this time, and to have no more roarers 

 or bridle-eaters ; so we let it be known that we wanted horses, 

 and they soon poured in, and we selected from them three very 

 fast ones, whose names were " Jeff," " Rob/' and " Bally," 

 also a very good white pony and a pair of horses for the 

 waggon. We secured Ivor, my cook of last year, and were 

 some time in getting a second man. At last, however, we 

 heard of a butcher called Douglass, who had fought seven others 

 in the market, and had strewn them all over the place ; so we 



