. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. â ll«M-. Yes, â¢()l»iiig (Mir ic the lust the top of s, and Hooii timely had ans. Lead- )h»zing liie. )o glad 1() by our les- r dirertiou. hawed out, lus, in Chi- nee amongst id a bowl of le pipe wa« loniy silence, le (dd; (hvrk- )ed; short of legs, reced- es. ig coals, pay- imting-party Elk, Cougar, the ancient I as are bar- nge for furs, â¢ht, oi
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. â ll«M-. Yes, â¢()l»iiig (Mir ic the lust the top of s, and Hooii timely had ans. Lead- )h»zing liie. )o glad 1() by our les- r dirertiou. hawed out, lus, in Chi- nee amongst id a bowl of le pipe wa« loniy silence, le (dd; (hvrk- )ed; short of legs, reced- es. ig coals, pay- imting-party Elk, Cougar, the ancient I as are bar- nge for furs, â¢ht, oiled, and V further use a good shot, wild animals. tes no powder to his quarry red. Snaking ling, perhaps, our, he is a TIIK T,Y\.\. 451 relentless foe to the Deer or Elk. lie is dirty and tiltliy in liis liubits, subsisting prin('ii)ally on snioke<l salmon and salt meat -living a life several degrtvs below that of a beast. The glowing accounts of the noble red juan which we have read in our youth, and the exaltecl opinion we have held of his manly attributes, brave deeds, and daring mien, are all dispelled upon being brought face to face with the filthy reality. Gratitude or generosity are unknown ele- ments in his make-up. There are many powerful, hardy specimens of manhood among them, but this is attributable to their out-door life, and wanderings in the I'oi-ests and mountains. Shrewdness and cunning they possess in a marked degree, in all that pertains to their own interests. Patience, also, is one of their leading characteristics. A night in an Indian hovel under oi'dinary cinuinistances would be unendurable, but on the occasion I have described anything was preferable to the midnight bowlings of the woods. We passed the night as best we could among our red brethren, buo were nj) and off at the first streak of day- light in the morning. Our homeward way was soon dis- covered in the brightness of the sun, and a long, luu'^" aniii brought us again to our
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