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DIFFICULTY OF CAPTURE. 



INDIAN STRATAGEM IN HUNTING BISONS. 



They are so continuously hunted, however, both by the 

 Indians and the cayeutes, that it is growing more and more 

 difficult to circumvent them. Each animal of the herd 

 divines the approach of danger with a truly marvellous 

 instinct. With ears erect, and nostrils to the wind, they 

 gather round the bigger members of the herd, which are 

 necessarily the oldest and most experienced, and at the 

 slightest signal gallop away at a speed which almost defies 

 pursuit. 



In spite of the immense destruction, says a recent writer, 

 which the Indian pioneers and trappers annually work 

 amons; the innumerable herds which animate the mono- 



