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frame houses and a tremendous high bluff raising at about an angle of forty five drgrees, after an infinite deal of hard labor we succceeded in getting our horses and wagons to the top and then men and animals were so tired our that we put up our tent and were glad to find rest for the night the first night of our camping out. Each one made himself useful providing the evening meal or attending to the horses. some made a fire, some worked at putting up the tent and made a bed of blankets and quilts on the bare ground and others cutting ham making coffee and providing the other articles belonging to the prairie travelers life, The supper was delicious and sharpened as our appetites were by vigorous exercise and a strange climate we enjoyed the meal hugely, Ye epicures and good livers you should come out on the prairie shove a wagon up a hill about seven hundred feet high and you could appreciate a harty healthy meal without fearing any of the pangs of indigestion or dyspepsia After suppers we chatted a while, and then turned under our blankets for a nights rest, and I must say I never rested better in my life I slept soundly all night and woke in the morning thoroughly refreshed our first and nights experience on the prairie did not have many hardships. We turned out at the first strak of day and then had a very busy time till we got started, some brought in the horses cleaned and harnessed them others pulled up our tent and packed it and the bed cloths into the wagons, and others were busy preparing the breakfast. At sunrise we were all ready and started across the bluffs directly westward through the plains of Kansas, the road today lay through a very rough rolling country the hills being about two hundred feet high, no sooner on the top of one expecting then to find a good road, but instead we could look down a tremendous steep hill so very abrupt that we were compelled to chain two of the wheels of the wagon to