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Show 5 6 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. an old buffalo bull, after telling you that I did not succeed in getting out the liver of a young cow, after the animal was opened ? Surely I was not; but even if I had been, the alarming situation I found myself in, at the time he fell, prevented me from attempting it, if I even had known it was the hunters' rule to do so. EETUEN TO CAMP. My messmates, to whom I related my adventure, had not the slightest idea that I had lost my way in the chase. I came into camp with the rest of the party, that night, about seven o'clock, tired and hungry. After eating a hearty supper, I wrapped myself up in my blankets and was soon asleep, dreaming of the disputed honors I had gathered in my maiden hunt after a buffalo bull. PEAIErE ON FTRE. Oct. 30.-During the day, the sun was completely obscured by low, dark clouds ; a most disagreeable and suffocating smoke filled the atmosphere. We were still encamped on the Saline fork of the Kansas River, impatiently awaiting the arrival of Col. Fremont, who had not yet returned from St. Louis. His continued absence alarmed us for his safety, and the circumstance that the prairies were on fire for several days past, in the direction through which he had to pass to reach us, added to our anxiety. Night came on, and the dark clouds which overhung us like an immense pall, now assumed a horrible, lurid glare, all along the horizon. As far as the eye could |