. Sport and adventures among the North-American Indians [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Indians of North America; Adventure and adventurers; Chasse; Chasse; Indiens d'Amérique; Aventure et aventuriers. 280 HUILl)IN(i A "SHACK (( A. i ] I i i Vou lii'Nt liiul 21 sloping bank, out ut' wliicli yuu cut tiu ohloug h hIi th iidu of the II to I) lOUSC open in Trout, Iuin .sloping; MidcM, iiud the buck Homc t(!U t'cct lii;;li. \ «Mi tlicu l)iiil(l the Irout of loj^s, lujikinj^ it two feet lower than IIk; backj and fill in tlic cuds cither with U)'^s or earth. The door aud wiudow« are tlieu cut
. Sport and adventures among the North-American Indians [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Indians of North America; Adventure and adventurers; Chasse; Chasse; Indiens d'Amérique; Aventure et aventuriers. 280 HUILl)IN(i A "SHACK (( A. i ] I i i Vou lii'Nt liiul 21 sloping bank, out ut' wliicli yuu cut tiu ohloug h hIi th iidu of the II to I) lOUSC open in Trout, Iuin .sloping; MidcM, iiud the buck Homc t(!U t'cct lii;;li. \ «Mi tlicu l)iiil(l the Irout of loj^s, lujikinj^ it two feet lower than IIk; backj and fill in tlic cuds cither with U)'^s or earth. The door aud wiudow« are tlieu cut out, ami a roof of polcH, grass, arul luud is put ou, aud your shack is couiplctc, ouly requiriug the Moor to l)c stauipcd duwu to be ready for use. Souuitiiucs a chiiuucv is uwide : but iu niaiiv iu which I have stayed the lire was li^'htcd iu oiu' coruer, aud tlie suu) fouud its way out l)y a hoh> iu the roof. The spaces betwiru the logs are daubed with chiy to keep out the cold; aud with a good fire these shacks arc very coiufortable, whcu your eyes get used to the smoke. This shack was a small aud very dirty oue, aud coutaiued a "boss," or mauager, aud four boys. The food was chiefly boiled beef cut up iu lumjjs, as they hud not much time for hunting, aud 1 id driven most of the game away by (iriug at everything they saw. They were a very rough set, and their conversation uas dreadfully monotonous, being almost entirely about beef, its price iu the market, and the best way to get it there—the whole being seasoned with very strong language. There were some stories, too, of Indian atrocities, several cow- boys having been killed lately, though no ranche had been attacked. The Sioux will sometimes dismount to crawl up to a house at night and fire into it; but none of them have been known to do so in the daytime ; and I hcurd here of a ranehe- nian's wife having kept oft' nearly twenty Indians by using her husband's re[)eutcr through the M'iudows of the ca
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