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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 ittle 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,