But that which cheered the hunters more than all the other aspects of sublimity and loveliness, were the immense herds, grazing on the apparently limitless prairie.

Many of these herds numbered thousands and yet they appeared but like little spots scattered over the vast expanse.

The hunter had found his paradise; for there were other varieties of game in that luxuriant pasture, elk, deer, antelopes and there was room enough for them all.
Our adventurers immediately selected a spot for their camp on the edge of the forest, near a bubbling spring.

With great alacrity they reared their hut, and arranged all the apparatus for camping, with which they were abundantly supplied.

Poles were cut from the forest, and planted in the open sunny prairie, with ropes of hide stretched upon them.