. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . A HERD AMONG THK BREAKS. hatchet is re-advantage,ansported, and fonns the food of great num-bers of people in the seasonwhen fresh meat cannot be ob-tained. The Indians and thehunters, who spend their lives THE YOUNG NIMRODS. on the plains, pretend to be fond of it, but a white man who has beenaccustomed to the food of civilization does not take kindly to pemmican,and rarely eats it if he can get anything FIRE-WATER. • Of the buffaloes thus killed every year it is thought that the hidesof all but ten or twenty thousand are saved.
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . A HERD AMONG THK BREAKS. hatchet is re-advantage,ansported, and fonns the food of great num-bers of people in the seasonwhen fresh meat cannot be ob-tained. The Indians and thehunters, who spend their lives THE YOUNG NIMRODS. on the plains, pretend to be fond of it, but a white man who has beenaccustomed to the food of civilization does not take kindly to pemmican,and rarely eats it if he can get anything FIRE-WATER. • Of the buffaloes thus killed every year it is thought that the hidesof all but ten or twenty thousand are saved. Fifty thousand are thoughtto be obtained by the hide-hunters of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, andother western and south-western States, who make no attempt to save anyof the meat beyond what they need at the time. Until a few years agothe Indians used to come to the forts or trading-posts once a year to selltheir robes, and the scenes on those occasions were very interesting. Theyformed their camps just outside a fort, and a few of the Indians were letin at a time to do their trading. The whites were careful to keep wellarmed, and to put the red men outside when there was the least sign ofa disturbance. The robes were usually taken at a valuation of four orfive dollars each, and paid for in sugar at a dollar a pound, whiskey twodollars a pint, and other things in like proportion. Money changed handsvery rarety, and when it did the coin in use was the America-
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