28 THE ADVENTURES OF 



CHAPTER IV. 



BAD INDIANS BUFFALO CHIPS A FRIGHT- 

 ENED HUNTER NOT QUITE DEAD YET, ETC, 



It was not long before the Indians became 

 so bad that hunters were compelled to go in 

 squads of from eight to ten and upwards, and 

 then it was with more or less risk. Hunters 

 were killed almost every day, but the Indians 

 are general!}^ to cowardly to make an attack 

 with anything like equal numbers. Their 

 favorite plan is for a large band to surround 

 about three or four whites, and shoot them 

 down or put them to death by torture. I 

 will not stop here to describe any of their 

 methods of torture, but will do so in another 

 chapter. 



I remember one time that I was one of a 

 squad of ten buffalo hunters when a band of 

 Ogallahs came over from their reservation on 

 a thirty days' permit from Uncle Sam to hunt 

 not far from us, and one day a squad of them 

 came over to our -camp and got to horse-racing 



