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of horns, which I wished to preserve in memory of this terrible 
slaughter. ‘To-morrow,’ said my companion, “you shall see us 
bring in the buffalo to the new pound.” 
‘‘ After the first run, ten days before our arrival, the Indians had 
driven about 200 buffalo into the enclosure, and were still urging on 
the remainder of the herd, when one wary old bull, espying a narrow 
crevice which had not been closed by the robes of those on the outside, 
whose duty it was to conceal every orifice, made a dash and broke the 
fence, the whole body then ran helter skelter through the gap, and 
dispersing among the sand dunes, escaped, with the exception of eight 
who were speared or shot with arrows as they passed in their mad 
career. In all, 240 animals had been killed in the pound, and it was 
its offensive condition which led the reckless and wasteful savages to 
construct a new one. This was formed in a pretty dell, between sand 
hills, about half-a-mile from the first, and leading from it in two 
diverging rows, the bushes they designate dead men, and which serve 
to guide the buffalo when at full speed, were arranged. The dead 
men extended a distance of four miles into the prairie, west of and 
beyond the Sand Hills. They were placed about 50 feet apart, and 
between the extremity of the rows might be a distance of from one 
and a half to two miles. 
“ When the skilled hunters are about to bring in a herd of buffalo 
from the prairie, they direct the course of the gallop of the alarmed 
animals by confederates stationed in hollows or small depressions, who, 
when the buffalo appear inclined to take a direction leading from the 
space marked out by the dead men, show themselves for a moment 
and wave their robes, immediately however hiding again. This serves 
to turn the buffalo slightly in another direction ; and when the animals 
haying arrived between the rows of dead men, endeavour to pass 
through them, Indians here and there stationed behind a dead man, 
go through the same operation, and thus keep the animals within the 
narrowing limits of the converging lines. At the entrance to the 
pound, there is astrong trunk of a tree placed about one foot from 
the ground, and on the inner side a shallow excavation is made, 
sufficiently deep, however, to prevent the buffalo from leaping back 
when once in the pound. As soon as the animals have taken the 
fatal spring they begin to gallop round and round the ring fence looking 
for a chance of escape, but with the utmost silence the women and 
children on the outside hold their robes before every orifice until the 
