Camping and Hunting in the Shoshojie 



The Slaughter of Buffalo. {Front Photograph.) 



to doubt it ; not so big as a buffalo, truly, 

 now I came to see him in daylight, but 

 weighing, I should say, fully six hundred 

 pounds. 



As to bears' weights, I confess myself 

 sceptical about the existence of a bear in 

 the Rocky Mountains, this side of Califor- 

 nia (I cannot say anything about Califor- 

 nia grizzlies), weighing over one thousand 

 pounds. Colonel Pigot, the most noted 



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