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whole herd is brought in, they then climb to the top of the fence,, 
and with the hunters who have followed closely in the rear of the 
buffalo, spear or shoot with bows and arrows or firearms at the 
bewildered animals rapidly becoming mad with rage and terror, within 
the narrow limits of the pound. It is then that a dreadful scene of 
confusion and slaughter begins, the oldest and strongest animals crush 
and toss the weaker; the shouts and screams of the excited Indians 
rise above the roaring of the bulls, the bellowing of the cows and tho 
piteous moaning of the calves. The dying struggles of so many 
strong, full grown animals crowded together, furnish a revolting and 
terrible picture, but with occasional displays of wonderful brute 
strength and rage; while man, in his savage, untutored and heathen 
state, shows both in deed and expression how little he is superior to 
the noble beasts he so wantonly and cruelly destroys.” 
After witnessing this highly characteristic illustration of Indian 
habits, Professor Hind held a formal interveiw with the Cree Chief, 
the description of which furnishes a definite expression of the jealousy 
with which the encroachments of the white men are regarded by the 
wild hunter tribes. After describing the dress of the Cree Indians, 
which was of the scantiest description ; and the painting, as well as 
the scars and gashes—record of mourning for departed friends, —with 
which their bodies were marked, the author thus proceeds: “I 
enquired the age of an extremely old fellow who asked me for medicine 
to cure a pain in his chest; he replied he was a strong man when the 
two Companies (the Hudson’s Bay and the North West) were trading 
with his tribe very many summers ago. He remembers the time when 
his people were as numerous as the Buffalo are now, and the buffalo 
thick as trees in the forest. The half-breeds thought he was more 
than 100 years old. Shortstick accepted the presents of tea, tobacco, 
bullets, powder and blankets I made him, with marked satisfaction, 
and expressed a wish to learn the object of our visit. We held a 
‘talk’ im my tent, during which the chief expressed himself freely 
on various subjects, and listened with the utmost attention to the 
speeches of the Indians he had summoned to attend the Council. 
“ All speakers objected strongly to the half-breeds’ hunting buffalo 
during the winter in the Plain Cree country. They had no objection 
to trade with them or with white people, but they insisted that all 
strangers should purchase dried meat or pemican, and not hunt for 
themselves, 
