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more scarce this season than he ever knew them thus far 

 up the Missouri. Sprague finished his drawing of the 

 doe's head about dinner-time, and it looks well. After 

 dinner he went after the puzzling Woodpeckers, and 

 brought three, all different from each other. Mr. Cul- 

 bertson, his squaw wife, and I rode to Fort Mortimer, 

 accompanied by young McKenzie, and found Mr. Collins 

 quite ill. We saw the hunters of that fort, and they 

 promised to supply me with Bighorns, at ten dollars 

 apiece in the flesh, and also some Black-tailed Deer, and 

 perhaps a Grizzly Bear. This evening they came to the 

 fort for old Peter and a mule, to bring in their game; 

 and may success attend them ! When we returned, Harris 

 started off with Mr. Culbertson and his wife to see the 

 condition of Mr. Collins, to whom he administered some 

 remedies. Harris had an accident that was near being of 

 a serious nature; as he was getting into the wagon, think- 

 ing that a man had hold of the reins, which was not the 

 case, his foot was caught between the axle tree and the 

 wagon, he was thrown down on his arm and side, and hurt 

 to some extent; fortunately he escaped without serious 

 injury, and docs not complain much this evening, as he 

 has gone on the ramparts to shoot a Wolf. Sprague saw 

 a Wolf in a hole a few yards from the fort, but said not 

 a word of it till after dinner, when Bell and Harris went 

 there and shot it through the head. It was a poor, mis- 

 erable, crippled old beast, that could not get out of the 

 hole, which is not more than three or four feet deep. 

 After breakfast we had a hunt after Hares or Rabbits, 

 and Harris saw two of them, but was so near he did not 

 care to shoot at them. Whilst Harris and Mr. Culbert- 

 son went off to see Mr. Collins, Mr. Denig and I walked 

 off with a bag and instruments, to take off the head of a 

 three-years-dead Indian chief, called the White Cow. 

 Mr. Denig got upon my shoulders and into the branches 

 near the coffin, which stood about ten feet above ground 



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