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home all his high expectations dissipated and scattered to the winds not regretfully he lies down to an eternal sleep in those boundless prairies of the west. As I saw those innumerable resting places of the California immigrants I shudderingly thought what if I should yet be laid down on this long dreary endless road to take my last long sleep to make one of those lowly mounds of earth of which we passed hundreds every day. I confess the thoughts were exceedingly unpleasant and I longed more than ever for to reach the borders of civilization. About seventy miles from Fort Karney we came to a new established trading post and purchased there some nescessaries we paid thirty cents a pound for flour forty cents for sugar and forty cents for bacon. The house was what is called a "adobe" house being made intirely of mud the roof having a few timbers on it and then sodded at a distance you would think it a small natural hill. The travelers we met told us that we would find plenty of buffalo in a few days the news raised us to the highest state of excitement we longed to encounter the huge unwieldy native of the prairies. The following night we were aroused by a bellowing noise we supposed it to be a herd of buffalos as the noise gradually died away. In the morning we eagerly scanned the prairie in every direction but could see no signs of buffalo we harnassed up our horses and traveled about eight miles. We heard a low rumbling noise like distant thunder then a great cloud of dust arose increasing every moment in extent and reaching up to the clouds we were in the highest state of excitement the cloud of dust suddenly cleared away and we saw an immense hered of buffalo only about a quarter of mile distant. It was a most grand and imposing sight from the slight elevation on which we were standing this great living mass could be seen stretching miles and miles away as far as the eye could reach was one compact solid body moving in one direction and making the earth shake beneath them.