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of their saddles were emptied, still they persevered in attacking us for a day & a night, but they always had to retire to reload, & we had not, we had a great advantage over them. At last when we had killed eighty of them, & they had killed nine of us, we got towards morning upon the top of a hill where there was kind of a natural [[]] of rock, & they cd not approach us without being exposed to our fire: they then gave up the game, & drew off. These sixteen shooters cost in California forty dollars, but mine has so long been my companion day & night, & has so often saved my life, that I wd not take any money for it." After? he said this he turned it round to see if there was any speck of dirt, or rust upon it, handling it gently, as if he loved it. Perfect ease and equality, without any obtrusiveness, or [[]].[[]] assumption appeared to me to be the true characteristics of the manners of the Plains. I spent a day & night at a boarding? house, where the proprietor combined the two employments of cattle-breeding & inn-keeping. I happened to be at the time the only guest. The accommodation was not bad. It consisted of a large room, used for smoking, & for the bar; of a better furnished room for [[]]; & of a drawing room properly belonging to the Mistress of the house, but into which[[]] [[]]priests? were inserted?. I have found several