152 WETHERED’S HUNT. 
lowed the example of the first, had not a 
hunter, anxious to dispatch them more speedi- 
ly, approached too near; when, regaining 
strength from the excitement, they fled before 
him, and entirely escaped, though he pursued 
them for a considerable distance. 
A few days after this occurrence, Mr. Weth- 
ered returned to the camp one evening with 
seven buffalo tongues (the hunter’s usual tro- 
phy) swung to his saddle. He said that, in 
the morning, one of the hunters had ungene- 
rously objected to sharing a buffalo with him; 
whereupon Mr. W. set out, vowing he would 
kill buffalo for himself, and ‘no thanks te 
any one. He had not been out long when he 
spied a herd of only seven bulls, quietly feed- 
ing near a ravine; and slipping up behind the 
banks, he shot down one and then another, 
until they all lay before him; and their seven 
tongues he brought in to bear testimony of 
is skill 
s skill. 
Not long after crossing Dry River, we as- 
cended the high grounds, and soon found our- 
selves upon the high ridge which divides the 
waters of the Canadian and False Washita, 
whose ‘breaks’ could be traced descending 
from the Llano Estacado far to the southwest. 
By an observation of an eclipse of one of 
Jupiter's satellites, on the night of the 25th of 
March, in latitude 35° 51’30", I found that 
‘we were very near the 100th degree of longi- 
tude west from Greenwich. On the follow- 
ing day, therefore, we celebrated our entrance 
into the United States territory. Those whe 
