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Show 8o FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. Pass. The storm setting in so severely they could not face it, they came near freezing to death ; it was with great difficulty that Brother Heywood was kept alive. The day they returned to our camp we had killed a buffalo some twelve miles distant, it took all hands three days to get it into camp. This buffalo I shot at the risk of my life. He was coming toward me in a snow trail. I lay on the trail with nothing to protect me. If I had not killed him he would doubtless have run on to me ; but he dropped at the first shot. We were about out of anything fit to eat and it did not require much bravery to take the risk, for almost anyone will take desperate chances when hungry. We wounded two others, that we expected to get, but about the time we commenced dressing the one killed, there came on a regular blizzard that lasted several days. We had hard work to save the lives of the men getting the meat into camp. CHAPTER XV. Our Food Exhausted Rawhides Cooked and Eaten Our Fast- Day An unexpected Supper A providental Food Supply. THE MAIL company went down fifty miles to Platte bridge to winter. Marsha] Heywood decided to remain with us and live or die, as the case might be, pre-ferring to be with his brethren. There were no provi-sions to be had at the Bridge, for three of us had been down to see if we could get supplies. We barely got enough to last us back. The mountaineers there had some cattle but no bread, they lived by hunting. |