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perforations in and about it, than Cap- 

 tain Ross's. 



By the stipulations it was understood 

 that each miss was to be computed as 

 thirty inches against the shooter. The 

 Count unfortunately made several at 

 starting, from over excitement : he was 

 decidedly nervous, probably owing to the 

 high reputation of his antagonist, and, 

 abiding by the private arrangement, he 

 was the loser, although, as I have before 

 stated, he shot better in the aggregate 

 than Captain Ross. But even this exhi- 

 bition, good as the shooting may be con- 

 sidered in this country, would be laughed 

 at by a North American Indian, and the 

 Americans themselves. 



I had the good fortune to be quartered 

 in Canada some two or three-and- twenty 

 years ago, and having, during my stay in 

 that country, visited the States and some 

 of the Indian tribes, I have witnessed 



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