We men went to making moccasins from the green hide, and when we had cut out those for the men and women the balance of the hide was used in preparing some also for the oxen, particularly the worst ones, for if I remember correctly there was not enough to go round.
The morning came, bright and pleasant, as all of them were, and just warm enough for comfort in the part of the day.

The women were as usual, and their appearance would remind one quite strongly of half-drowned hens which had not been long out of trouble.

Hair snarled, eyes red, nose swollen, and out of fix generally.

They did not sleep well so much fatigued, for they said they lived over their hard days in dreams at night, and when they would close their eyes and try to go to sleep, the visions would seem to come to them half waking and they could not rest.
There was now before us a particularly bad stretch of the country as it would probably take us four or five days to get over it, and there was only one water hole in the entire distance.

This one was quite salt, so much so that on our return trip the horses refused to drink it, and the little white one died next day.