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222 herd. While this hunt was made, two other natives cut off a number of juicy buffalo steaks and placed them in leaves bound with vines.

"I hope they don't go into camp here," murmured Dan to me.

"Or that they don't discover some trace of us," I returned.

"We had better hold ourselves in readiness for an attack," put in Matt Gory, and we thought this good advice and followed it.