midday
Though the former were heard howling in the distance , we were not otherwise disturbed by them , and at dawn we were once more in our saddles traversing the wide extending prairie , our new associates and we exchanging accounts of the various adventures we had met with . Armitage was not very talkative , but Dick managed to draw him out more than could any of the rest of the party . Buffet , in his broken English , talked away sufficiently to make ample amends for his employer 's taciturnity . Our midday halt was over , and we did not again intend to encamp until nightfall , at a spot described by Buffet on the banks of a stream which ran round a rocky height on the borders of the prairie . It was , however , some distance off , and we did not expect to reach it until later in the day than usual . We were riding on , when I saw one of the Indians standing up in his stirrups and looking to the northeast . Presently he called to Buntin and pointed in the same direction .