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lews, Plovers, Doves, and numbers of Antelopes. About 

 daylight I awoke and roused McKenzie ; a man had gone 

 for the horses, but after a search of two hours returned 

 without finding them ; all the party now went off except 

 one man and myself, and all returned without success 

 except Bonaventure, who found an old horse that had been 

 lost since April last. He was despatched on this to the 

 fort to get other horses, as we had concluded that ours 

 were either lost or stolen. As soon as he had gone, one 

 of the men started again in search of the runaways, and in 

 a short time returned with them. McKenzie and I soon 

 rode off. We saw two Grizzly Bears at the lake again. 

 Our homeward road we made much shorter by cutting off 

 several turns ; we overtook Bonaventure about four miles 

 from our encampment, and passed him. We rode forty 

 miles to the fort in a trifle over six hours. We had trav- 

 elled in all about one hundred and twenty miles. Bona- 

 venture arrived two hours after we did, and the carts came 

 in the evening." 



Wednesday, June 28. This is an account of Squires' Buf- 

 falo hunt, his first one, which he has kindly written in my 

 journal and which I hope some day to publish. This 

 morning was very cloudy, and we had some rain, but from 

 ten o'clock until this moment the weather has been beau- 

 tiful. Harris shot a handsome though rather small Wolf; 

 I have made a large drawing, and Sprague a fine dimin- 

 ished one, of the rascal. The first news we had this morn- 

 ing was that the ferry flat had been stolen last night, 

 probably by the deserters from the fort who have had the 

 wish to return to St. Louis. Some person outside of the 

 fort threw a large stone at an Indian woman, and her hus- 

 band fired in the dark, but no one could be found on 

 searching. There is much trouble and discomfort to the 

 managers of such an establishment as this. Provost went 

 shooting, but saw nothing. Young McKenzie and another | 

 man were sent to find the scow, but in vain. On their re- 



