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page number 53 Aug - to the horse's neck and being very light floated nicely. They would start into the river on the horse's backs and after they had got them well started they would slide off and catch their horses by their tails and in that way, whooping and yelling they came to the shore. They conducted themselves very peaceably and after we had given them some rations they departed. In the afternoon 10 miner came down from the mountains on the other side of the river where they had been prospecting. They belonged to a party of 34 and had been out about four weeks from Helena and intend