heads had already had for some years a custom of never breaking camp on Sunday, but of passing that day in devotional exercises.
On the 24th Of July, the camp crossed the mountain and moved from Henry's lake to Mosquito [Red Rock] lake. Until the 8th of August, we were still traveling through a great variety of country. Now Nve would find ourselves in open, smiling valleys, now in sterile lands beyond lofty mountains and narrow defiles, sometimes in extensive high plains, profusely covered with blocks and fragments of granite.
On the loth we camped on Jefferson river. The bottom is rich in lovely pasture lands and wooded with trees of thin growth. ' ~'e Nvent down it, making twelve to fifteen miles a clay, and on the list of the same month we came to the junction of the three forks of the Missouri, where that river first takes this name; we camped on the middle branch [:Madison Fork]. In this great and beautiful plain were buffalo in numberless herds. From Green river to this place, our Indians had made their food of roots and the flesh of such animals as the red and black-tailed deer, elk, gazelle, bighorn or mountain sheep, grizzly and black bear, badger, rabbit and panther, killing also occasionally such feathered game as grouse, prairie-hens (a kind of pheasant), swans, geese, cranes and ducks. Fish abounded besides in the rivers, particularly salmon trout. But cow-meat is the favorite dish of all the hunters, and as long as they can find it, they never kill any other animals. Finding themselves therefore in the midst of abundance, the Flatheads prepared to lay in their winter supply; they raised willow scaffolds about their lodges for drying meat, and every one made ready, his fire-arm, his bow and his arrows. Four hundred horsemen, old and young, mounted on their best horses, started early in the morning for their great bunt. I chose to accompany them in order to watch this striking spectacle from near at hand. \t a given signal, they rode at full gallop among the herds; soon everything appeared confusion