HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



CAPTAIN LEWIS THE TRAVELLER 



wide-extended savannahs of the more southern districts of the north 

 for miles in extent. " Such was the multitude," say Lewis and 

 Clarke, speaking of an assemblage of bisons as they crossed the 

 water, u that although the river, including an island over which 

 they passed, was a mile in length, the herd stretched, as thick as 

 they could swim, completely from cne side to the other." The 

 same travellers, speaking of another of these grand spectacles, 

 say, " If it be not impossible to calculate the moving multitude 

 which darkened the whole plains, we are convinced that 20,000 

 would be no exaggerated number." Catesby, after stating that 

 they range in droves, feeding on the open savannahs morning and 

 evening, says that in the sultry time of the day they retire to shady 

 rivulets and streams of clear water gliding through thickets of tall 



