SOUNDING THE KECALL. 



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The second " stepple-rhaso" in. pursuit of the cows 

 lasted about twenty minutes. The recall was then 

 sounded by a young 

 Sioux, who, with a 

 wooden trumpet, ut- 

 tered three distinct 

 notes by separate ac- 

 tions of the tongue, 

 and repeated them 

 rapidly after their 

 first intonation. The 

 primitive herald 

 obeyed the orders of 

 Rahm-o-j-or, and 

 soon all our company 

 reassembled in the 

 centre of the battle- 

 field, where they be- 

 gan to count the slain. 

 All the bisons had 

 not fallen in the same || 

 place ; their carcasses 

 were scattered all a- 

 loiig the line of flight 

 followed by the start- 

 led herd, which was now disappearing rapidly in the mists 

 of the horizon. 



The official report delivered to the Sioux chieftain 

 numbered one hundred and forty-nine bisons as ready to 

 be cut up. Among these were one hundred and sevent < < -i i 

 bulls, and thirty-two cows; the latter were far preferable 

 to the former as food, for the flesh of the bull is musky, 

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A YOUNG SIOUX, WITH A WOODEN TBUMPBT.' 



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