192 REVIEWS—NORTH WEST TERRITORY. 
able drifting dunes which have invaded the Great Valley ; Professor 
Hind narrates his visit to Shortstick, the Chief of the Crees of that 
region, near the south branch of the Saskatchewan. The Crees were 
camping out, in the all-important oceupation of their great annual 
Buffalo hunt, and their Chief sent on a party of mounted Crees, ac- 
companied by his son, who informed the strangers, that they were 
engaged in the construction of a new Buffalo-pound ; and as soon as 
it was ready, the visitors were invited to repair thither, and witness the - 
capture of the Buffalo. The scene which he then witnessed was one 
full of interest to the traveller, and singularly illustrative of the im- 
provident recklessness of the Indian hunters. We shall abridge some- 
what, the graphic narrative, omitting some of the details, which, though 
vivid and truthful illustrations of this particular phase of Indian life, 
can be sought for in the pages of the original report, by such as desire 
to master all the minutiee of the dreadful scene of butchery. 
“We passed through the camp,” says Professor Uind, “to a place 
which the Chief’s son pointed out, and there erected our tents. The 
women were still employed in moying the camp, being assisted im the 
operation by large numbers of dogs, each dog having two poles. 
‘harnessed to him, on which his load of meat, or pemican, or camp 
furniture was laid. After another smoke, the Chief’s son asked me, 
through the interpreter, if I would like to see the old buffalo pound, 
in which they had been entrapping buffalo during the past week. 
With a ready compliance I accompanied the guide to a little valley 
between sand hills, through a lane of branches of trees, which are 
called ‘dead men’ to the gate or trap of the pound. A sight most 
horrible and disgusting broke upon us as we ascended a sand dune 
overhanging the litlle dell in which the pound was built. Within a 
circular fence 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, 
laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed 
in every conceivable position over two hundred dead buffalo. From 
old bulls to calves of three months old, animals of every age were 
huddled together in all the forced attitudes of violent death. * * * 
«The Indians looked upon the dreadful and sickening scene with 
evident delight, and told how such and such a bull or cow had exhibit- 
ed feats of wonderful strength in the death struggle. The flesh of 
many of the cows had been taken from them, and was drying in the 
sun on stages near the tents. At my request the Chief’s son jumped 
nto the pound, and with a small axe knocked off half a dozen pair 
