BUFFALO HUNTING. 
Tue buffalo is decidedly one of the noblest victims that 
is sacrificed to the ardor of the sportsman. There is a 
massiveness about his form, and a magnificence associ- 
ated with his home, that give him a peculiar interest. 
No part of North America was originally unoccupied 
by the buffalo. The places where now are cities and 
towns, are remembered as their haunts; but they have 
kept with melancholy strides before the “ march of ciyil- 
ization,” and now find a home, daily more exposed and 
invaded, only on that division of our continent west of 
the Mississippi. 
But in the immense wilds that give birth to the 
waters of the Missouri—on the vast prairies that 
stretch out like inland seas between the “ great lakes ” 
and the Pacific, and extend towards the tropics until 
they touch the foot of the Cordilleras, the buffalo roams 
still wild and free. 
But the day of his glory is past. The Anglo-Saxon, 
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