CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE.
THE MYSTERIOUS WALLET.
That day our hunters dined, for the first time, on fresh buffalo-beef.
After dinner they were not idle, but spent the remainder of the evening in drying a portion of the meat over a fire.

They had resolved to encamp on the spot for the night, and follow up the trail in the morning.

They therefore busied themselves, until a late hour, in preparing as much broiled buffalo-meat as would last them for several days.
It was near midnight before they thought of retiring to rest.

As they had done upon like occasions before, it was agreed that one should keep watch--so as to keep off the wolves from the meat--while the other two slept.
Their camp was in the open ground, near the spot where the buffalo had been skinned.

At a little distance off their animals were browsing upon the grass.