5th This morning at day light a company of 10 men was dispatched
on foot to overtake the ox teams & stop them untill we should
come up as our horses was breaking down from a bo^a^rd stuck in
the ground we learned they had stoped 5 days for us &
killed & dryed 30 buffalo cows & were still about one week
ahead of us we travled to day 13 miles & camped opposite
Ash hollow we have constant fine beautiful weather
to journey in the grass is getting dry & not much substance
in it & our horses are failing upon it I am thoroughly
convinced that oxen are far preferable to either horses or
Mules for such a journey esspecially if they return in the
fall distance 13 miles
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