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RECREA T10N. 



I put the animals in a well fenced pasture 

 of about 15 acres. Eight good cows were 

 milked night and morning for the benefit of 

 the calves. The milk was mixed with boiled 

 grass juice and poured into log troughs. 

 Besides, there was a fine growth of grass 

 in the pasture. 



Three miles below my ranch was a camp 

 of Gros-ventre Indians. They looked with 

 disapproval on my scheme of fencing in 

 " their bufTalo," as they called them. The 

 Indian still claims everything that might still 

 have been his had Columbus never sailed 

 the sea. 



All the steamboats had gone up stream a 

 week before, and I was impatiently await- 



ing their return that I might ship my calves. 

 The sixth morning after I put my captives 

 in the pasture I arose to find my fence torn 

 away by the ignoble redman and my herd of 

 calves had vanished along with my visions 

 of wealth. Muzzy and I saddled our plugs 

 and scoured the country all day. The Ind- 

 ians had driven the calves out of our reach : 

 or rather they had killed about a dozen x of 

 them and driven the rest toward the Red- 

 water. On our return we picked up 2 of 

 the youngest calves, strapped them on our 

 saddles and brought them in. One died, 

 the other I sold to the trader at Ft. Buford. 

 That wound up my first speculation in 

 catching buffalo. 



PHOTOGRAPHING THE PHILIPPINE WAR. 



Manila, P. I., February 17, 18Q9. 

 Editor Recreation : Photography is an 

 important factor in the operations of the 

 8th Army Corps, which took Manila from 

 the Spaniards and which is now busily en- 

 gaged in subduing the ungrateful natives. 



ular lenses. The department has 2 opera- 

 tors in the field all the time, accompanied by 

 one dark room man and 2 printers, all under 

 the charge of a lieutenant. 



When the army is operating near a city 

 or town the photographic corps has its head- 



PHOTO BY LIEIT. C. F. O KEEFE. 



UTAH BATTERY FIRING ON THE NATIVE TOWN OF MALABON. 



This corps has a regularly established 

 photographic department, fully equipped 

 with the finest instruments and cameras, 

 ranging in size from 5 x 7 to 17 x 20 inches. 

 The cameras are all long focus and are fitted 

 with telephoto lenses in addition to the reg- 



quarters there ; but when not near a town, 

 they camp with the army. They have port- 

 able dark rooms and heavy boxes made es- 

 pecially for the transportation of cameras 

 and material. The work in the field com- 

 prises reconnoissances close to the enemy's 



