1 60 SPORTING ADVENTURES 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE "BrFKAi.o. 



The buffalo Number of species Difference between them Its si/.e, 

 weight, and measurements The gigantic buffalo of pre-liislorie times 

 Fierce aspect of tlie modern bison When it is dangerous Courage of 

 the male Soeial character of the species Mothers have little a flirt ion 

 for the calves Where the females produce their young An ubatin 

 of horns Fight between a gri/./ly bear and a small herd of bulls 

 Defeat of the former A bull rescues a calf from a pack of wolves 

 Another tries to protect a cow from a hunter Cows courageous 

 sometimes A mother charges a hunter Her fate A new mode 

 of capturing calves Lassoing calves Few live Buffaloes in a 

 state of domestication Their stubborn character Favourite habitat of 

 the buffalo Character of the buffalo grass Sufferings of the animals 

 in winter from hunger How to tell a buffalo ground Wallows, and 

 how they are made Why old bulls leave the herds Use of the buffalo 

 to the Indians Future of both The flesh of tlie buffalo How it is 

 dried A custom of the West Eat all you want, but pocket none 

 How the wolverine feasts on dried buffalo meat Cunning and courage 



Pemmican What it is, and what it tastes like The most delicate 

 parts of tlie buffalo Cows better than bulls Vitality of the animals 

 Worst place to shoot at--Best weapons for hunting tbem How old 

 hunters kill them Suggestions to novices American horses ^Y/.sv^s 

 mustangs Running fifty miles a dav for ten days Opinion of old 

 hunters Faults of mustangs in running buffaloes How experienced 

 hunters attack a herd The various systems employed for killing the 

 buffalo Great annual slaughter of the animal Hide hunters Indians 

 dressed in wolfskins attack the buffalo Why they use arrows instead 

 of fire-arms Hunts of the half-breeds of British America The result 



Indian hunts Driving the animals over a precipice Mean devices 

 of the whites How thousands are destroyed annually Stalking My 

 first hunt The camp and the night alarm A solitary cow killed for 

 luck Chase after a calf Lasso one and get knocked down My horse 

 recaptured Bucking Shooting at antelopes Stalking buffalo skulls 

 Gambols of herds Queer sportsmen A dash after a herd and what 

 came of it My first brush, and how I won it An alarm of Indians 

 The retreat Suspicious horsemen A bloodless but blanching charge 

 Opinions of a party of Teutons about jokes The result to me of my 

 day's hunting A spirited chase in the Republican Valley Falls, and 

 accideWtsf Wolves and number of quarries killed -A magnificent spec- 

 tacle A thousand hunters and thousands of buffaloes in motion at the 

 same time A night scene Howling wolves and bellowing bisons 

 An alarm of Sioux The retreat Panic-stricken Pawnees. 



Tin-; bison, or American Imllalo (/>us americanns] is now 

 confined to a few ivinons extending 1 J'rom British America to 



