IN the western part x>f the United States, this sport is 

 followed both by the Indians and the whites with great zeal 

 and success. Indeed so many of them are killed every year 

 that fears are entertained of their utter extermination. Mr. 

 Catlin, who lived much among the Indians, thus speaks of 

 this sport. 



The buffalo herds, which graze in almost countless numbers 

 on these beautiful prairies, afford the Indians an abundance 

 of meat ; and so much is it preferred to all other, that the 

 deer, the elk, and the antelope sport upon the prairies in 

 herds in the greatest security ; as the Indians seldom kill 

 them, unless they want their skins for a dress. The buffalo, 

 or more correctly speaking, bison, is a noble animal that 

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