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well a supper of roasted ribs and doudins, the chef d’euvre: of a prairie 
cook. Mosquitoes thronged about us this evenitig ; but, by 10 o’clock, 
- when the thermometer had fallen to 47°, they had all disappeared. “wa 
i July 3.—As this was to be a point in our homeward journey, I made a- 
_ ¢ache (a term used in all this country for what is hidden in the ground) of 
_ abarrel of pork. It was impossible to conceal such a preceeding from the 
: sharp eyes of our Cheyenne companions, and I therefore told-them to go 
and see what it was they were burying. ‘They would otherwise have 
not failed to return and destroy our cache, in —— -of some. ric 
booty ; but pork they dislike, and never eat. We left our camp at 9, con- 
tinuing up the South fork, the prairie bottom affording us a fair road ; but 
in the ‘long grass we roused myriads of mosquitoes. and. flies, from which 
- our horses stfffered severely. ‘Phe day*was smoky, with a pleasant breeze 
_. from the south, and the plains on the opposite side were covered with buf- 
 falo. Having ‘travelled twenty five miles, weencamped at 6 in the even- 
ing; and the men were sent across the river for wood, as there is none 
here on the left bank. Our fires were partially made of the dois de vache, 
_ the dry excrement of the buffalo, which, like that of the camel in the Ara- 
_. bian deserts, furnishes to the traveller a very good substitute for wood, 
a burning like turf. Wolves in great numbers surrounded us during the 
night, crossing seat recrossing from the opposite herds to our camp, and 
howling and atic about in the river until morning. 
Juli e morning was very smoky, the sun shining dimly-and red, 
as in a thick fog- The camp was roused with a salute at daybreak, and 
bona imetll oe i Se of what our Indian friends called the “red 
vate ; ‘othe men. While we were at pe oa 7 buffalo 
calf broke through ees mp, followed by a couple of wo In its” 
“ftig , it had probably mistaken us for a band of buffalo. Se wolves. 
obliged to make a circuit around the camp, so that the calf got a lit- 
: at Pa start, and strained every nerve to reach a large herd at the foot of — 
the hills, about two miles distant; but first one, and then another, and 
another wolf joined in the chase, until-his pursuers amounted to twenty 
eS eck and they ran him down before he could reach his friends. 
: were a few bulls near the arias and one of them attacked the . 
Ives, and tried to'rescue him; but was driven off immediately, and the 
little animal fell an easy prey, half devoured before he was dead. We 
watched 8 chase with the interest always felt for the weak; and had 
been a saddled horse at hand, he would have fared better. Leaving 
samp, our read soon approached the hills, in whieh strata shoonee ig Pasa 
| oti Chimney rock, hereafter Sebotibed; make their appearance. : 
_. probably of this rock that the hills on the ‘right bank ofthe Platte, a litle 
_ below the junction, are composed, and which are worked the winds 
ronan into — peaks and cones, giving them, in contrast to. the. sur- | 
rounding level region, something of a picturesque appearance. We 
z ming numerous beds of the small creeks — in the 
pene rains and meling snow, pour down from the ridge, b ringing down 
with them always great quantities of sand and gravel; which have gr 
ally raised their eds four to ten feet above the level of the pub, which 
they cross, goon seem of them a miniature Po. Raised in this. wey 
; the Reagan any bank, the long yellew and 
resembles a a from the hills to. the: 
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