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signal from the top of a high hill, that buffaloes 
were in sight; this is done by walking the 
hunter’s horse backward and forward several 
times. We hurried on and found our scout 
lying close to his horse’s neck, as if asleep on the 
back of the animal. He pointed out where he 
had discovered the game, but they had gone out 
of sight, and (as he said) were travelling fast, the 
herd being composed of both bulls and cows. 
The hunters mounted at once, and galloped on 
in rapid pursuit, while we followed more leisurely 
over hills and plains and across ravines and 
broken ground, at the risk of our necks. Now 
and then we could see the hunters, and occa- 
sionally the buffaloes, which had taken a direc- 
tion toward the fort. At last we reached an 
eminence from which we saw the hunters ap- 
proaching the buffaloes in order to begin the 
chase in earnest. It seems that there is no 
etiquette among buffalo hunters, and this not 
being understood beforehand by our friend Har- 
ris, he was disappointed in his wish to kill a cow. 
The country was not as favourable to the hunters 
as it was to the flying herd. The females sep- 
arated from the males, and the latter turned in 
our direction and passed within a few hundred 
yards of us without our being able to 4ire at 
them. Indeed we willingly suffered them to 
pass unmolested, as they are always very danger- 
