. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . NARRATIVE OF 1853. 115 with the chiefs, all seeming anxious to extend their hospitality, and, as a delicacy, offering him adish of buffalos blood boiled with berries. The next morning the town crier announced the chiefsintention to move camp, and the horses being immediately brought in, in less than one hour thewhole encampment was drawn out in two parallel lines on the plain, forming a very picturesquescene. Their lodge poles being fast
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . NARRATIVE OF 1853. 115 with the chiefs, all seeming anxious to extend their hospitality, and, as a delicacy, offering him adish of buffalos blood boiled with berries. The next morning the town crier announced the chiefsintention to move camp, and the horses being immediately brought in, in less than one hour thewhole encampment was drawn out in two parallel lines on the plain, forming a very picturesquescene. Their lodge poles being fastened as a sort of sled, with the small ends tied across thehorses or dogs backs, and the others dragging on the ground, their goods are packed on them,as well as the children and the infirm, while some of the women and children also ride on thehorses backs. From three to five hundred pounds are thus transported by each horse at therate of twenty miles a day. The dogs each drag about forty pounds. Thus a thousand Indiansaccompanied him as far as Milk river, where the main party remained to hunt, and the thirtyprincipal men, with their families, came Avi
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