.OTc5.NjI0MTI

9 June

[Twasnt?] tough nor any thing unclear none of it was swallowed for all [we?] chewed it - 1/2 hour some of our company have killed another and have gone after it with 8 oxen PM - here comes the buffalo he stands 7 ft high head weighs 200 lbs when his breast bone was split - he measures 14 1/2 ft from foot to foot we skinned? him and took the best of the meat to jerk? drove on untill we came to wood and jerked it saw thousands of the buffalo in every direction unclear

227" Sunday S

Still day and pleasant - lots of alkali? Prickely pears and c -- just unclear a fellow that is barefooted and driving loose cows and lame oxen -- camper? oer? a nice creek took a swim in a beaver's dam excellent spring water feed unclear buffalo chips timber getting? scarer we are quite a little ways from Platte unclear 16-