Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
We were now passt the buffalo ground and as our camp had
not enough meat it was deaemed wise for a company of Hunters to return back
So about 20 of us including butchers and teamsters returned 10 miles with three
waggons and pitched our camp in a little timber on a slough and during the
evening we killed two buffalo.
After cutting the body of meat from the bones we roasted
them for our supper and breakfast and at the two meals we ate ^picked^ the bones of
of the two buffaloes. It is incredible what an amount of buffalo meat
a hungry man will eat without salt or bread and not make him sick. The
hump bones of a fat buffalo rosasted is most delicious and the leg bones
are filled with marrow which we drank without bread. As we sat around
our fireside we should have been ^made^ a delightful picture for an artist
to have drawn.
At daylight in the morning 4 of us went to the
Bluffs to observed the position of the herds. After breakfast we divided
into twos. Luke Johnson went with me and we saw while out
three wild horses and they were splendid looking creatures
We found that the herds on the upland
were travelling to the N. & N. E. and the only way to obtain meat was
for the hunters to confine themselves to the herds on the flat. Nine
buffalo were killed ^most of them by Amasa Lyman^ but only seven of them were dressed and brought
into camp: the wolves feasted on the other two. We got counsel to
return to the main body early in the morning
Met By the Police From Winter Quarters
