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 upon squads of adventurers, trudging on foot or riding in wagons to the Black Hills. At "Portuguese Phillip's" ranche, sixty-eight of these travellers had sat down to supper in one day; while at Fagan's, nearer Cheyenne, during the snow-storm of March 26th and 27th, two hundred and fifty had slept in the kitchens, stables, and out-houses.