As far as the eye could reach to our right, the herd extended.

To the left, it extended equally.

There was no estimating the number of animals in it; I have no idea that they could all have been corralled in the State of Rhode Island, or Delaware, at one time.

If they had been, they would have been so thick that the pasturage would have given out the first day.

People who saw the Southern herd of buffalo, fifteen or twenty years ago, can appreciate the size of the Texas band of wild horses in 1846.
At the point where the army struck the Little Colorado River, the stream was quite wide and of sufficient depth for navigation.