. Hudson's Bay, or, Every-day life in the wilds of North America, during six years' residence in the territories of the honourable Hudson's bay company . essed them from the swampy ice-begirt shores of Hudsons Bay. In the Saskatchewan brigade two young bisons were HUDSONS BAY. 127 conveyed to York factory, for the purpose of being ship-ped for England in the Prince Rupert. They were acouple of the wildest little wretches I ever saw, and werea source of great annoyance to the men during the way they were taken was odd enough, and as it mayperhaps prove interesting, I shall describe i
. Hudson's Bay, or, Every-day life in the wilds of North America, during six years' residence in the territories of the honourable Hudson's bay company . essed them from the swampy ice-begirt shores of Hudsons Bay. In the Saskatchewan brigade two young bisons were HUDSONS BAY. 127 conveyed to York factory, for the purpose of being ship-ped for England in the Prince Rupert. They were acouple of the wildest little wretches I ever saw, and werea source of great annoyance to the men during the way they were taken was odd enough, and as it mayperhaps prove interesting, I shall describe it here. In the Saskatchewan the chief food both of white menand Indians is buffalo meat, so that parties are constantlybeing sent out to hunt the buffalo. They generally chasethem on horseback, the country being mostly prairie land,and, when they get close enough, shoot them with Indians, however, shoot them oftener with the bowand arrow, as they prefer keeping their powder and shotfor warfare. They are very expert with the bow, whichis short and strong, and can easily send an arrow quitethrough a buffalo at twenty yards off. One of these. parties, then, was ordered to procure two calves alive,if possible, and lead them to the Companys establish-ment. This they succeeded in doing, in the following 128 HUDSONS BAY. manner:—Upon meeting with a herd, they all set offfull gallop in chase; away went the startled animalsat a round trot, which soon increased to a full gallopas the horsemen neared them, and a shot or two toldthat they were coming within range. Soon the shotsbecame more numerous, and here and there a blackspot on the prairie told where a buffalo had slackening of the pace occurred, however, as eachhunter upon killing an animal merely threw down hiscap or mitten to mark it as his own, and continued inpursuit of the herd, loading his gun as he gallopedalong. The buffalo hunters, by the way, are very expertat loading and firing quickly while going at f
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