will equip it fully, so that the country round about may depend upon it for Rations.
"There is another building, intended also for an Hotel, but of a different sort.

This is called the Cottage, and is much frequented by fellows of the lower sort, the Labourers and others now stopping in this vicinity.

It is the especial rendezvous of many men concerned with the handling of Cattle.

I must tell you that this is to be a great market for these Western Beeves.

Great numbers of these cattle are now coming in to this country from the far South, and since the Ry.
is yet unable to transport these Animals as they arrive there is good Numbers of them in the country hereabout, as well as many strange persons curiously known as Cowboys or Cow-Punchers, which the same I may call a purely Heathan sort.