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Deer that I should think from their jumping were black tailed deer we started them out of almost every thicket of bushes, this valley was quite large & pretty & I think must have been one the "Parks" so called by the trappers, we did not kill any deer here I did not even shoot at them, but watched their bounding in every direction = Every few rods = giving a bound much higher than the others,, camped at night on a small spring brook of clean cold water - rained some in the night = morning cold enough for an overcoat & foggy = July 12th the other company following, refusing to pay any share of the guides expenses,, we after starting in the morning by a short turn, threw them off our track & it cost them considerable time & trouble to find our trail again. we passed over a level valley & forded a large stream Larimie Fork & nooned on the west bank, in the afternoon we travelled over a high stony plain, in some places making very hard travelling for our animals about like travelling over stone heaps, saw some hollows? where water & collected & evaporated white with Alkali some of the boys used it in cooking - without any material advantage I should judge, weather uncomfortably cold & we came shivering into camp = on guard from 12 to 2 = 13th started early = came across a stray buffalo bull. I chased him up a ravine & had him trapped as the walls were so steep he could not get out only by charging past me or over me. I shot 3 balls as near his heart as I could guess, which he took without flinching = but lowered his head & faced me torn page shaggy? hair standing Erect, & his Eyes looking like torn page of fire, as I was only some 3 or 4 rods distant