n 4 HUNTING TRIPS 



open plains a moderate development of the 

 senses was sufficient to warn them of the 

 approach of the latter before they had come 

 up to the very close distance required for 

 their primitive weapons to take effect. 

 Thus the strength, size, and gregarious hab- 

 its of the brute were sufficient for a protec- 

 tion against most foes; and a slight degree 

 of speed and moderate development of the 

 senses served as adequate guards against the 

 grizzlies and bow-bearing foot Indians. 

 Concealment and the habit of seeking lonely 

 and remote places for a dwelling would have 

 been of no service. 



But the introduction of the horse, and 

 shortly afterwards the incoming of white 

 hunters carrying long-range rifles, changed 

 all this. The buffaloes' gregarious habits 

 simply rendered them certain to be seen, and 

 made it a matter of perfect ease to follow 

 them up; their keeping to the open plains 

 heightened their conspicuousness, while 

 their senses were too dull to discover their 

 foes at such a distance as to nullify the ef- 



