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The night passed away without any accident in the morning when the sun rose there was countless herds of buffalo all around us we were hemmed in on every side, the only vacent spot of earth for miles was the small space that surrounded ourselves and horses. We got somewhat alarmed about getting ourselves and horses safely out of the beseigers lines. we hitched up drove our frightened and unwilling teams at the herd uttering the cries we heard from the soldiers the evening before and had the satisfaction to see the huge animals give away and open a passage for us. It was like the celebrated passage through the Red Sea, for miles and miles on either side of us was a solid body of those gigantic animals roaring and bellowing the very earth shaking beneath their tread. Sometimes a huge bull would plunge his horns into the earth and throw up a shower of earth and stones others would lay down on their sides and spin round as if they were revolving on a pivot they would continue at that untill they had a wore a circle into the ground Sometimes they were so unpleasantly close that we struck? them with the whip they were awfully scaered and made the most frantic exertions to get out of our way. We tickled their sides with several volleys of buck shot when struck they would throw their heels high in the air and strike their horns into the earth. there was plenty of calves among them but we could not get a shot at them the old one always protecting them sheltering them from us. We traveled all that day not camping till the middle of the afternoon still that endless trong extended ahead of us far as the eye could reach we had now traveled through there fifteen miles and still it seemed we were as far as ever away [blotch] the end. All that night they