After supper one of the Cheyennes drew, upon a sheet of paper, very rudely, but, as it afterwards appeared, quite correctly, a map of the general character of the country between the encampment and their villages, which were about three hundred miles further west.
The two next days the party made about forty miles.

"The air was keen," writes Lieutenant Fremont, "the next morning at sunrise, the thermometer standing at 44 degrees.

It was sufficiently cold to make overcoats very comfortable.

A few miles brought us into the midst of the buffalo, swarming in immense numbers over the plains, where they had left scarcely a blade of grass standing.

Mr.Preuss, who was sketching at a little distance in the rear, had at first noticed them as large groves of timber.
In the sight of such a mass of life, the traveller feels a strange emotion of grandeur.