Memorabilia 



and gardens. " Off fences must come," 

 he sometimes said of the gates, " but 

 woe unto him by whom they come — 

 if found out."' 



In the following year, 1863, King 

 left Yale and went with his school- 

 mate, Gardiner, to California, cross- 

 ing the plains on horseback, with the 

 emigrant party referred to in already 

 recorded memoirs which plainly show 

 how the important experiences of this 

 journey essentially determined King's 

 subsequent career and the character 

 of his scientific life-work. 



One of the personally interesting 

 incidents of that expedition, hitherto 

 unrecorded, so far as I know, which 

 King, many years ago, used to relate 

 with thrilling effect, was an exciting 

 experience in buffalo hunting, which 

 occurred not far from Fort Kearney, 

 where, hearing of large herds of buf- 

 falo in the vicinity, King determined 

 to try his luck in getting one. He 

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