Letter from Charles Gilbert to "How", 1860-12-14

Handwritten and signed letter from Charles Gilbert to his nephew "How". How is almost certainly Howard Stanbury Abbot.

"...Well now then for the [hunt]--The party was made up of three officers and seven soldiers with a wagon tents [etc] we were mounted on mules and ponies and had two first rate dogs....This day we made a long journey about thirty miles seeing buffalo deeer antelope and the like--but we killed only three buffalo...."