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grass standing. Mr. Preuss, who wassketching ata little distance in the 
_ rear, had at first noted them as large groves of timber.. In the. sight of 
- Such’ a mass of life, the traveller feels a strange emotion of grandeur. 
come up with him. Animals are frequently lost in this way; and_it is 
necessary to keep close watch over them, in the vicinity of the baffle, in 
the midst of which they scour off to the plains, and are rarely re 
‘One of our mules took a sudden freak into his head, and joined aneigh- 
boring band to-day.. As we were not ina condition to lose. prses, I seer: 
Several men in pursuit, and remained in camp, in t of rec 2S 
him; but lost the afternoon to. no purp # 
Astronomical observations placed us i = 
40° 49' 55". ; ‘<4 
_July 1.—Along our road to-day the prairie bottom was more elevated 
and dry, and the hills which border the right side of the river igher, and 
more broken and picturesque in the outline. Phe country, too, was bet- . 
ter timbered. As we were riding quietly along the bank, a grand herd of 
buffalo, some seven or eight hundred in number, came crowding up from 
the river, where they had been to.drink, and commenced crossing the 
the distance across the prairie (two or 
n a sudden agita 
