Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 93 its whole aspect furious. The annexed figures, Plate 8, of the common and buffalocow, in a partial state of domestication, were taken with the daguerreotype, at FortSnelling; and will give an exact idea of their relative size and comparative weight. This species was first seen in a single mdividual observed by Cortez and his fol-lowers
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 93 its whole aspect furious. The annexed figures, Plate 8, of the common and buffalocow, in a partial state of domestication, were taken with the daguerreotype, at FortSnelling; and will give an exact idea of their relative size and comparative weight. This species was first seen in a single mdividual observed by Cortez and his fol-lowers, in 1521, in the kind of menagerie, or zoological collection of Montezuma, inMexico. To this place the animal had been brought from the north, by Indians, towhom the collection of rare birds and quadrupeds had been committed by the nativemonarch. It was not, however, till the expedition of Coronado north of the Gila, in1542, that its natural ranges were penetrated. It was not found at all in the highlands of New Mexico. The Spanish adventurers had passed the Eio del Norte, andentered the region of the great southern fork of the Arkansas, before they encounteredthe unmense herds of it which they describe. So headlong were the drov
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