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the yard ; and through it they rush without per- 

 ceiving their danger, until they are shut in, to the 

 number, oftentimes, of two or three hundred. 

 When they find themselves enclosed, the Indians 

 say, and I have frequently seen myself, that they 

 begin to walk around the outside of the yard, in 

 the direction of the apparent revolution of the 

 sun, from east to west. Before any of them are 

 killed, the Indians go into the tent of the chief to 

 smoke, which they denominate making the buffa- 

 loe smoke. They then go out to the yard, and 

 kill the buffaloes with bows and arrows ; and there 

 are Indians, who will send an arrow, entirely 

 through one buffaloe, and kill, at the same time, a 

 second. When the buffaloes are all killed and 

 cut up, the tongues of all of them are taken to the 

 tent of the chief; and with a part of them he 

 makes a feast, and the remainder he allows his 

 neighbours to keep. The meat and skins are 

 then distributed among the people of the whole 

 camp ; and whether equally or not, no one will 

 complain. Should any be displeased with their 

 share, they will decamp, and go and join another 

 party. 



The Natives generally cut up the body of an 

 animal into eleven pieces, to prepare it for trans- 

 portation to their tents, or to our forts. These 

 pieces are the four limbs, the two sides of ribs, 



