. History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . ks, oftento the number of two hundred. They are much larger than those we see in had the curiosity to weigh one, which I found to be thirty-six pounds. They havehanging from the neck a kind of tuft of hair half a foot in length. Bears and stags are found there in very great numbers, and buffaloes and roebucksare also seen in vast herds. Not a year
. History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . ks, oftento the number of two hundred. They are much larger than those we see in had the curiosity to weigh one, which I found to be thirty-six pounds. They havehanging from the neck a kind of tuft of hair half a foot in length. Bears and stags are found there in very great numbers, and buffaloes and roebucksare also seen in vast herds. Not a year passes but they (the Indians) kill more than athousand roebucks and more than two thousand buffaloes. From four to five thousand ofthe latter can often be seen at one view grazing on the prairies. They have a hump onthe back and an exceedingly large head. The hair, except that on the head, is curledand soft as wool. The flesh has naturally a salt taste, and is so light that, althougheaten entirely raw, it does not cause the least indigestion. When they have killed abuffalo, which appears to them too lean, they content themselves with taking the-tongue, and going in search of one which is fatter. Vide Kips Jesuit Missions, , the hunters paradise. 209 afforded lodgment for the bear, and were the trellises that supportedthe tangled wild grapevines, the fruit of which, to this animal, wasan article of food. The bear had for his neighbor the panther, thewild cat and the lynx, whose carnivorous appetites were appeased inthe destruction of other animals. Immense herds of buffalo roamed overthe extensive area bounded on the east bythe Alleghanies and on the north by thelakes, embracing the states of Ohio, Indi-ana, Illinois, Wisconsin and the southernhalf of Michigan. Their trails checkeredthe prairies of Indiana and Illinois inevery direction, the marks of which, deepworn in the turf, remained for many yearsafter the disappearance of the animals that made them.* Theirnumber
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