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penetrated the right buttock to a depth of about 

 six inches. The healed scar showed what a 

 gaping wound it must have inflicted. The 

 other man was wounded high up in the thigh. 

 The bison's horn had caught the back of the 

 thigh, and, scraping the bone, had penetrated 

 the limb and actually come through on the 

 inside. It was a wonder the femoral artery was 

 not severed. I asked the old hunter how long 

 he had been laid up with this wound, to which he 

 cheerfully replied that he was unable to move 

 for six weeks, but that after that time the leg 

 quickly healed. It speaks volumes for the 

 pluck of both these men that after such an 

 experience they should still have been keen to 

 follow bison, but they were as staunch as possible, 

 for I have seen them both tried pretty severely. 

 Better trackers I have never known. I believe 

 they could have tracked at any time of the 

 year. When either of them took on a track, 

 you knew for certain that you would come up 

 with your beast sooner or later. But I am 

 wandering off the tracks myself now, so let me 

 pick them up again. I have mentioned these old 

 hunters because their experience bears out what 

 I have been saying, namely, that in nearly every 

 case the cause of bison charging is due to a super- 

 ficial wound having been inflicted on the animal 

 in the first instance. Anyone who has seen 

 the antiquated old muzzle-loader of the native 



