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up on the Ice, then I would use the blankets for him to walk on, until wee reached the shore. I made up my mind I would not try such a foolish caper any more. I was both wet, and cold, as well as hungry. I left the river and went straight across the timber to the prairie, thinking that I might run across some fresh trail, nearly sundown. I looked up and down the prairie as far as my eyes could see, and at last, I saw an object moveing down towards me.. I soon made it out to be an "Indian hunter, as he approached me, I aw that it was one that I well knew, by the name of "unclear=E=tah=E=Mo=Wha" or Black Wolf," he had a large fine "Buck," swung across his horse, makeing for his Wick=E=Eup. I was glad to meet him for they was no other camp near