. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. le having a well-like opening, abouttwenty feet in depth. Into this pool the Indians casttheir offerings, ranging from old blankets to stolenwatches, thereby to appease the Great Spirit.(From his location. Sachem thought the lattermust be an old salt.
. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. le having a well-like opening, abouttwenty feet in depth. Into this pool the Indians casttheir offerings, ranging from old blankets to stolenwatches, thereby to appease the Great Spirit.(From his location. Sachem thought the lattermust be an old salt.) We fished with a hooked stick for some time, andwere rewarded by bringing up a ragged blanket anda shattered gunstock. All around the rim of theopening were incrustations of salt, and the brackishwater trickled over, and ran in little rivulets downthe huge sides. At the base of the rock, a dead buf-falo was fast in the mud, having died where hemired, while licking the Great Spirits brackishaltar. As no remarkable spot in Indian land should everbe brought before the public without an accompany-ing legend, I shall present one, selected out ofseveral such, which has attached itself to this. Tomake tourists fully appreciate a high bluif or pic-turesquely dangerous spot, it is absolutely essential i!iimiiraillllillllim|l|l|||||M^^^ o2. 3>. \ i !i. 11 ;» ;?^liL -111 IniLI m^m !|. II Ir ? 1 ii P,PiliP„i ft: 1 ij ,^, i^ 1^; t m! -!^ili\*- t c( I THE LEGEND OF WACOXDA. 401 that some fond lovers should have jumped down it,hand-in-hand, in sight of the cruel parents, whostruggle up the incline, only to be rewarded by thehesLvt-rending^nale. This, then, is THE LEGEND OF WACOXDA. Many moons ago—no orthodox Indian story evercommenced without this expression—a red maiden,named Hewgaw, fell in love. (And I may here bepermitted to quote a theory of Alderman Sachems,to the effect that Eves daughters generally fall intoevery thing, including hysterics, mistakes, and thefashions.
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