When The Time
Came To Say Good-By, I Was Sorry To Leave A Number Of The Friends At
Camp Supply, Particularly Mrs. Hunt, With Whom We Stayed The Last Few
Days, While We Were Packing.
Everyone was at the ambulance to see us
off - except the Phillips family.
We were three days coming up, because of one or two delays the very
first day. One of the wagons broke down soon after we left the post,
and an hour or so was lost in repairing it, and at Buffalo Creek we
were delayed a long time by an enormous herd of buffalo. It was a
sight that probably we will never see again. The valley was almost
black with the big animals, and there must have been hundreds and
hundreds of them on either side of the road. They seemed very
restless, and were constantly moving about instead of grazing upon the
buffalo grass, which is unusually fine along that valley, and this
made us suspect that they had been chased and hunted until the small
bands had been driven together into one big herd. Possibly the hunters
had done this themselves, so the slaughter could be the greater and
the easier. It is remarkable that such grand-looking beasts should
have so little sense as to invariably cross the road right in front of
moving teams, and fairly challenge one to make targets of them. It was
this crossing of large numbers that detained us so long yesterday.
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