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In at the end farthest from the fire.

This kind of tent will hold about 3 wood fashion and is a tolerable protection from wind & rail sic.

When the camp was finished and squirrels accounted for, we took our rifles and sallied forth to hunt, Peshego Peshwego & I together in order that he might shew me the ground, for otherwise Indians are averse to hunting in company, when it is almost impossible to hunt successfully unless by oneself as the most perfect quietness is required to get up to deer, & which is difficult when two persons are together as the deer is alarmed by the cracking of a twig or the shaking of a branch when passing under it..

This was the first day of a new double rifle I had brought out with me & I longed for ? an opportunity of displaying its merits to