The leading party was to guard and care for the cattle and deliver them in the morning.

The regulations were read aloud to the captains, and this rather large army of men, women and children, with about five hundred head of stock, moved out very systematically.

It would sometimes be fully ten o'clock before the rear division could make a start, and correspondingly late before they could get up with the main camp at night.

They got along very well, but cleaned the country of grass for some distance each side of the trail, as they swept along.
About the first of November Capt.

Smith overtook us with the pack train, and camped with us at night.