Advance company arrives in Salt Lake Valley (still Mexican territory at the time); sets up camp.
12th Sunday we travled 21 miles & camped on the sweet water about
200 miles from fort John. Just before camping we saw a herd of
Buffalo Bulls 11 in number About one dozen footman with their
guns put after them as we had no meet in camp I mounted a
small mule with A brace of pistols & a 7 shooter pistol I was the
ownly horsman in chase we drove them into A canion of the
mountiain whare they could not get away & we surrounded [them]
the footman shot 3 times into the herd & they jumped of[f] a precipice
25 feet one broke his neck in the fall & droped dead the remai-
nder came rushing by me I gave them chase run into the herd
& drove out two of them which we killed with our pistols &
rifles so we got 3 of them which made us plenty of meat 21 m[iles]
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