They gathered a capful of the pinon cones--the seeds of which Lucien knew how to prepare by parching and pounding.

These, with the bear's meat, gave them a good hunter's breakfast.

They then thought of their dinner, and dug up a quantity of "segos" and prairie-turnips.
They found also a mallow--the _Malva involucrata_--whose long tapering root resembles the parsnip both in taste and appearance.

All these were baked with the bear's meat--so that the dinner, in some respects, resembled ham, turnips, parsnips, and yams--for the root of the sego thus dressed, is not unlike the yam, or sweet potato (_Convolvulus batatas_).
Of course, our adventurers did not eat their dinner immediately after breakfast.

A long interval passed between the two meals, which they employed in washing, scouring, and setting all their tackle to rights-- for this had got sadly out of order in the hurry of the previous days.
While thus engaged, they occasionally cast their eyes over the prairie, but nothing of the buffalo could be seen.