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Indians set up their lodges all about the herd, 

 the buffalo might yet find a way to break through 

 and escape. 



If, however, all went well, and a good part of 

 the herd was killed, there was great rejoicing all 

 through the camp. Everybody was happy, since 

 now, for some days, food would be abundant, 

 and every one would have enough to eat; and 

 there is nothing that the Indian dreads so much 

 as hunger. 



Later, after the Indians obtained horses and 

 iron-pointed arrows, and, later still, repeating 

 rifles, these old methods were all given up. It 

 was easier to chase the buffalo on horseback, and 

 their packhorses gave them a ready means for 

 bringing the spoils of the chase back to the camp. 

 Now, too, they used the lance in hunting, driving 

 the horse close up on the buffalo's right side, 

 holding the lance across the body, and, with a 

 mighty two-handed thrust, sending the keen steel 

 deep into the animal's vitals. 



Perhaps no more exciting scene could be wit- 

 nessed than one of the old-time buffalo chases by 

 the Indians. Naked themselves, they rode their 

 naked horses, carrying their quivers of arrows on 

 their backs or by their sides, and their bows in 



