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Wed Jan 13 01:46:56 CET 2010

Llowance, and, occasionally, to kill a steer. They bore their daily
labors and privations, however, with great good humor, taking their
tone, in all probability, from the buoyant spirit of their leader. "If
the weather was inclement," said the captain, "we watched the clouds,
and hoped for a sight of the blue sky and the merry sun. If food was
scanty, we regaled ourselves with the hope of soon falling in with herds
of buffalo, and having nothing to do but slay and eat." We doubt whether
the genial captain is not describing the cheeriness of his own breast,
which gave a cheery aspect to everything around him. There certainly
were evidences, however, that the country was not always equally
destitute of game. At one place, they observed a field decorated with
buffalo skulls, arranged in circles, curves, and other mathematical
figures, as if for some mystic rite or ceremony. They were almost
innumerable, and seemed to have been a vast hecatomb offered up in
thanksgiving to the Great Spirit for some signal success in the chase.
On the 11th of June, they came to the fork of the Nebraska, where it
divides itself into two equal and beautiful streams. One of these
branches rises in the west-southwest, near the headwate
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