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By this time we began to feel a little more com- 

 fortable, having made a couple of rough benches, and 

 fixed some shelves to hold our things; but as our 

 utensils were not very numerous, cooking was one of 

 our chief difficulties. There was, however, no want of 

 food, for Saint supplied so plentifully. 



We kept in all the calves of the new herd, leaving 

 the cows at liberty, as they never strayed very far 

 from their young. AYe were also obliged to confine 

 some of the wildest, but the rest soon accustomed 

 themselves to the prairie, particularly as Ave sprinkled 

 salt before them, of which they are passionately fond. 

 Indeed we gave it to all the cattle every evening, which 

 kept them from straying far away. In the daytime 

 we ranged the woods with our rifles. 



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