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swarmed around us sometimes striking against the wagon and almost overturning it I awoke several times in the night and amagined the wild herd was running over us. The next morning there seemed to be a general movement of the herd towards the south,they regularly immigrated north and south twice a year, going north as far as the Canada line and south as far as Mexico. We were now about twenty miles from the Platt Rover and had not seen a drop of water since leaving it there was a great drouth previously all over the country it was now forty days since we had left the mountains and it had not rained in all that time the grass was burned yellow and the ground parched up. Our horses suffered terribly this day being the se cold day without water We had a scanty supply for ourselves we drank of it sparingly as it was very warm and nauseating That gave out before night and we were parched and choking an August sun poured down on us fiercely and the prairie stretched on every side of us like a boundless ocean no prospects of quenching our thirst or finding shelter from the fierce rays of the sun. The buffalo dotted the prairie in straggling groups trying to follow the course of the herd, but overpowered by the heat they stopped helplessly on the prairie unable to go in quest of water. At length as we were journeying along towards sundown almost despairing of finding relief for that night we suddenly came to a pole sticking up at the side of the road, although we had never seen a like sign before we knew that it indicated water in the neighborhood Quickly we unharnessed our horses and started out in all directions looking for the water at length we found it at the bottom of a hill, but only a miserable mud hole the water green and slimy full of monstrous frogs that croaked ? as we approached them The side of the