294 TAYMOUTH AND BISON QUIETED. 



gon we had taken out with us to come and secure the 

 robe and the meat; but no living thing was to be 

 seen. 



At last two specks appeared on the hills on the other 

 side of the creek ; they were horsemen, coming towards 

 me. Greorge Bromfield, in endeavouring to ascertain 

 whither the chase had led me, had heard the " who- 

 whoop" that he had so often heard over Druid's hunted 

 deer, borne on the favouring air, when, directed by 

 the sound, on attaining the brow of a hill, he had 

 made me out standing by a black mass upon the 

 plain. He then went back in search of Major 

 Martin, and together as witnesses of the beginning 

 and the end of the 40 minutes' chase, they came 

 down to the creek, whither I met them, to say where 

 they could cross, and then we returned together to 

 the slain. 



We had not been long so situated when Bayard also 

 came down the distant undulations of the plains ; with 

 Pape's rifle he, too, had killed his bison at a brilliant 

 shot, whose tongue he bore at his saddle, and then we 

 kept a look-out in case the waggon, on its return to 

 camp, should come in sight. It did so, and with heart 

 felt satisfaction I gave orders for the robe, head, and all 

 to be taken, as well as the meat. The public have since 

 had an opportunity of inspecting this bison in the window 

 of the Field office, wherein Mr Ward, the naturalist, of 

 Vere-street, has placed him to my entire satisfaction, and 

 my brother sportsmen will be able to judge of the game 

 the plains afford. 



Mr Ward has succeeded admirably in preserving the 

 bison in an attitude as sketched by me, giving the 



