Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . The buffalo hunt is, next to an Indian battle, themost intensely exciting scene which may be witnessedamong the wilds of the West. To the buffalo, theIndian looks for food, for clothing, and for religiousand household implements. The hunting of that ani-mal he regards as a duty as well as a pleasure; andwhen once it is rumoured through a village that a herdof buffaloes is in sight, then warr
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . The buffalo hunt is, next to an Indian battle, themost intensely exciting scene which may be witnessedamong the wilds of the West. To the buffalo, theIndian looks for food, for clothing, and for religiousand household implements. The hunting of that ani-mal he regards as a duty as well as a pleasure; andwhen once it is rumoured through a village that a herdof buffaloes is in sight, then warriors who have faceddeath in a hundred forms bring out their swiftesthorses and spring u23on them; and when the wholeparty rushes across the field to engage the bellowingherd, a scene is presented for which it would be vainto look for a parallel, not merely amid the tame for-malities of civilized life, but even among the desertsand cane-brakes of Africa or the jungles of India. The Indians have several methods of attackingbuffaloes. The most exciting, as well as most danger-ous one, is that in which they surround the herd for. A BUFFALO HUNT. 341 the purpose of destroying it. The hunters, wellmounted on their buffalo horses, and armed with bowsand arrows or long lances, divide themselves into twocolumns, take opposite directions, and at the distanceof a mile or more draw gradually around the herd,and having formed a circle, close upon their prey atregular distances. On perceiving the danger, theherd run in the opposite direction, but the horsemenrush in full speed to their front, and by brandishingtheir weapons and yelling, they turn the dense massin an opposite direction. Here they are met andfoiled in a similar manner. By this means, the hun-ters soon unite their parties, thus forming a continu-ous line around the herd. By this time the buffaloesare wheehng about in a crowded and confused mass,wounding and climbing upon each other. Then thework of death commences. Galloping ro
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