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Show IO2 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. feast fully and did not suffer any inconvenience. Both of us were well and feeling first rate next day after hav-ing a good sleep. As the cattle were so much bother we concluded to kill them. CHAPTER XVIII. Pulling Sticks " Rawhide Against Corn" Our Buffalo Hunt Dissatisfaction at the Food Rations Permission Given to eat All that was Wanted Ben Hampton's Prophecy Its Fulfillment A Relief Party Arrives Tom Williams' Party of Apostates He Demands Goods Under our Care but does not get Them. 7T BOUT this time another Y. X. company, under Por-r\ ter Rockwell and John Murdock, arrived going east. They gave us a little flour and other provisions ; they also brought us letters telling us when the relief train would arrive. With the three head of cattle and what this company furnished us, we felt safe for supplies until time for the relief trains. Here I will give an account of a little personal mat-ter that may seem like boasting, but I do not intend it so. This company stayed with us two nights. They were picked men, thirty in number, able- bodied, tough boys. On hearing of our sufferings many remarks were made showing deep sympathy for us. At this time we were well recruited, having had plenty of meat for some time but scarcely any flour for some five months. Bread we had hardly tasted. In fact, the first biscuit I got almost choked me, I had entirely lost my appetite for it. |