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25 These Indians appeared to be very friendly and well disposed towards us eager to trade skins and moccasins for anything we might offer them. We camped this night on a prairie dog city about ten miles square they are a queer looking little animal about the size of a cat fat and plump looking, they are very numerous, all that great extent of ground is full of holes about one yard apart, it is very hard to kill one of those little creatures they are very shy and at first appearance of an enemy in their vicinity their heels twinkle in the air, and they disappear in their holes in an instant, then commences a defeaning chorous of voices all barking furiously. It is very hard to get a shot at one of them and if you succeed in killing it the others will pull it into the hole before you can lay hold of it we used to count it a great feat to capture one of them it was only for the sport as the flesh is unfit to eat. The most remarkable thing about these little things is the mixture of races in their family, the dog, the owl and the rattlesnake all living peacefully in the same hole I have seen them all go down together many hundred times I think it is a very strange freak of nature. In this part of the country were a great many rabbits called here Jackass Rabbits but I am told by people that are well informed on the matter that they are the regular old country hare they are very large we succeeded in killing some and the flesh was excellent, there is a knack in hunting them which if you do not know you could not kill one in a month when one starts up before you you must stand still and then he will stand still also ang sit on his hind legs and face right towards you if he is too far off for a shot advance slowly towards him in a straight line if you go zigzag he will know it at once and start off in this way you can come close enough to shoot him if he does take the alarm and start stop still again