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a drove of buffalo passing in the vicinity, I 
requested a chief to take my horse and 
one ‘upon the shares.’ He delighted in the 
sport: so, gathering his arrows, he mounted 
the pony, which was slow, and withal very 
lean, and giving chase, in a few minutes he 
had two buffaloes lying upon the plain, and 
two others went off so badly wounded, that, 
with a little exertion, they might have been 
secured. 
But the dexterity of the Comanches in the 
buffalo chase is perhaps superior to that of 
any other tribe. The Mexican Ciboleros, how- 
ever, are scarcely if at all inferior to the In- 
dians in this sport. J once wenton a huni- 
ing expedition with a Cibolero, who carried 
no arms except his bow and arrows and a 
butcher’s knife. Espying a herd of buffalo, 
he put spurs to his horse, and, though I fol- 
lowed as fast as a mule I rode could trudge, 
when I came up with him, after a chase 
of two or three miles, he had the buffalo 
partly skinned! This was rather unusual 
dispatch, to be sure, for the animal oftener 
lingers awhile after receiving the fatal dart. 
In the chase, the experienced hunter sin- 
gles out the fattest bufialo as his victim, and 
having given him a mortal wound, he in like 
manner selects another, and so on, till the 
plain is sometimes literally strewed with 
carcasses. 
It seems that Capt. Bonneville marveiled 
greatly that some Indians, during his peregri- 
nations in the Rocky Mountains, s should have 
