The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . DKIVING BISON OVER A PRECIPICE. In the year 1840 a bloody war broke |7 a ^^n^|V ) vout between the Crees and the Bhack- ,\iy tes**)^) w^feet, arising as in general from a very **triilins: cause. Peace was at length eon-eluded, but while the two nations Averecelebrating this fortunate event withgames and races, a Cree stole a raggedblanket, and a new fight immediatelybeo-an. Returning home, the Blackfeetmet a Cree chieftain, with two of hiswarriors, and killed them after a shortalt
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . DKIVING BISON OVER A PRECIPICE. In the year 1840 a bloody war broke |7 a ^^n^|V ) vout between the Crees and the Bhack- ,\iy tes**)^) w^feet, arising as in general from a very **triilins: cause. Peace was at length eon-eluded, but while the two nations Averecelebrating this fortunate event withgames and races, a Cree stole a raggedblanket, and a new fight immediatelybeo-an. Returning home, the Blackfeetmet a Cree chieftain, with two of hiswarriors, and killed them after a shortaltercation. Soon after the Crees sur-prised and murdered some of the Black-feet, and thus the war raged more furiously than ever. Sir George Simpson,who was travelling through the country at the time, visited the hut of a Creewho had been wounded in the conflict at the peace meeting. As in his flighthe bent over his horses neck, a ball had struck him on the right side, and re-mained sticking near the aiticulation of the left sliouldei*. In this condition hehad already lain for thi-ee-and-thirty days, his left a
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