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that I saw were as ugly as the mud fence which sur
rounded them, though there is no accounting for tastes
as the girl said when she kissed the cow. the East side
of the Fort is the main Entrance on that side the Houses are two
stories high the roofs are almost flat sloping slightly inward
& Composed of Earth thrown on logs of cedar laid close toget-
=her the wall of the fort extending above the roofs of the Houses
forms a most admirable beam work for defense. There were
a large number of fine wagons drawn up before the fort
which they had bought for the Enormous sum of five doll
=ars a piece which had been abandoned by Emigrants on
account of their being too heavy they had thousands
of pounds of bacon which they had bought for 1/4 &
1/2 cent pr. h/" and every thing [everything] else in proportion. We
came up with Capt. Roberts here who had left us two
Sundays before he and Henry Spottswood had, had a
fight and seperated [separated] here. Two of the men going with
Henry & four of them going with Roberts among them "Aut"
you can tell John Ives this item. Roberts traveled with
us this week but left us yesterday evening he I suppose not
wishing to lay over on Sunday. Today the camp was thrown
into a state of great excitement by three buffaloe [buffalo] being
discovered making their way directly for the camp, notwith
standing it was Sunday. I could not with stand the tempt=
ation but seized my gun and got fair shot at one of them
about a hundred yards off though I did not get the
meat I am certain I killed the animal. Doson &
Saterly killed one yesterday evening about four miles from
camp upon which we are now feasting. The meats on our
table today consits [consists] of Buffaloe [buffalo], meat & liver, antelope, fish,
Hare, & Bacon, a first rate assortment we have plenty of fresh
meat all the time, but I must resume my Journal.

You will understand unless something unusual occurs that we
always remain in camp on Sundays & of which I make no note.

Monday June 11 = started at 6 A. M. rode some 8 miles, when
the road diverged from the river, to which it did not return
for the distance of six miles. The trains Halted for noon
on the High Table land and I having taken a "cut off" or a
bye path which led along the river but impassable for teams
I came out far ahead of the wagons & lost my dinner but
some of the most beautiful flowers I have yet seen, we reached
the Larimies [Laramie's] fork of the Platt [Platte] at 4 oclock [o'clock] which we
found a very fine rapid river it was most too deep to
ford but we blocked our wagon beds up & come through
safly [safely] & encamped on this side about 1/2 mile East of fort Lar=
imie [Fort Laramie] upon very poor grass at 6 oclock [o'clock]. Distance today 23 miles.

12 -- Started at 6 /2 oclock [o'clock] above the fort where we sold some of