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Buffalo are found within sixty or a hundred miles of this point. -- They formerly inhabited all parts of this vast country from the Atlantic west -- 18- In an arbor formed of green boughs laid upon a frame work of young trees the commissioners of the U.S. & the chiefs of the Dacotahs met to treat -- At one end on a raised platform was placed a table behind which sat the commissioners, interlinear: the American flag hoisted at the behind them a few feet from the arbor, sides were the secretaries, reporters & to the right & left stood & sat on the ground the trader half-breed & spectators. In a semicircle in front of the commission, the chiefs were seated o benches, crossed out: between them & the and the in-