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9 June

[Twasnt?] tough nor any thing [?We ate] none of it was swallowed for all [we?] chewed it - 1/2 hour some of our company have killed another and have gone after it with 8 oxen PM - here comes the buffalo he stands 7 ft high head weighs 200 lbs when his breast bone was split - he measures 14 1/2 ft from foot to foot we skinned? him & took the best of the meat to jerk drove on untill we came to wood and jerked it saw thousands of the buffalo in every direction Dis 7

227" Sunday S

Still dry & pleasant - lots of alkali Prickely pears &c -- just unclear a fellow that is barefooted and driving loose cows and lame oxen -- Camped on a nice creek took a swim in a beaver's dam excellent spring water feed & buffalo chips timber growing scarer we are quite a little ways from Platte Dis 16-