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sure of seeing one of the animals fall; the other then turned off 
into the wide prairie. 
ear the buttes we collected some beautiful Gaillardias of differ- 
ent species. Gaillardia amblyodon and G. pinnatifida we found 
abundant over the remainder of our day’srouté. Aftera march of 
eight miles more we reached the banks of the Arkansas river, where 
we encamped. Here we found a large train of wagons, belonging — 
(cucumis perennis) and the cactus, (cactus opunta;) also the 
marginata;) also. 
phylla) rudbeckia hirta, and a species of cockle burr; and onal 
sides the little mounds of loose earth thrown up by the gopher, 
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We left Walnut er at 3 o’clock, and entered upon vast plains 
of the buffalo grass, (sesleria dactyloides.) After a march of 11 
miles we camped within five miles of the famed Pawnee rock. Our 
camp was a mile from the river; but we drove our horses to water 
and got our buckets filled. As there was no wood, we used the 
““bois de vache,” and lay down near the smoke of the fires to avoid 
the mosquitoes. We had no sticks to support our mosquito bars. 
When we first arrived, the country around was covered with bufr 
falo, but it was too late in the day -to hunt; we therefore lay 
down quietly with the intention of having a fierce chase in the 
morning. 
~~ July 13th.—Last night we hada terrible serenade from a ‘large 
drove of prairie wolves, (canis latrans.) These animals always 
‘hang on the heels of the buffalo, to. pick up the infirm and those. 
the hunters have wounded, as well as to prey on what is left of the © 
slaughtered. 
“We got off in good time, and Lieutenaut Emory, in company of 
‘one of our hunters, started for the buffalo. We saw the chase; as 
and let the horsemen pass through, we heard 
‘Our hunter came into: camp empty handed. | We halted a short time 
to pack the buffalo meat, and then proceedéd to Ash creek. This 
creek was dry, so we continued our route among herds of buffalo 
eet were continually dashing across our road, and at length reached 
Pawnee fork after a march of 18 miles, E | 
*<<"The waters of this creek were so high that we could not cross} 
‘the trees along the sides of the banks were half hidden ; the whi 
