Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 10, 1889. 



J VOL. XXXin.-No. 13 

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CONTENTS. 



E OITORIAI.. 



The Human Eye. 



To Restrict the Number. 



"Yo's" Pawnee Book. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Summer Hunt with the 

 Pawnees. 

 Natural History. 



Out-of-Door Papers 



The Hawk and the Squirrel. 



Rhinoceros Hornbill. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Week in NebrasKa. 



Light-Weight or Small-Bore 

 Guns. 



The Hunting Rifle. 



Wild Rice. 



The Game Season. 



On Gallatin River, Montana. 



On a Stand. 



The Pend D'Oreille Country. 



Chicago and the West. 



Pattern and Penetration. 

 Camp-Fire Fdickertngs. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



On the Bay. 



Streams of Alaska. 



Black Bass in Maine. 



A Montana Big One. 



Ch'tte Fishing in Mauritius. 

 Fish culture. 



Missouri Fish Commission. 



The Kennel. 



The Canadian Field Trials. 



American Gordon Setter Club 



The A. K. C. Finances. 



That Lad of Bow Prize. 



The Fox-Terrier. 



Irish Red Setter Club Trials. 



The Sooner Dog. 



"Podgers" Talks Dog Again. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Riele and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallerv. 



Smokeless Powder. 



Critics and Croakers. 



Barrel Reflectors. 



The Trap. 



Elm City Gun Club Shoot. 



The Baltimore Tournament. 



Budd vs. Kleintz. 



Norwood Club Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



A Length Class Racer. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Status of the Clerk of the 

 Course. 



Amateur versus Professional 



Canoeists. 

 Fly. 



Paddling Canoes in A. C. A. 

 New York C. C. Regatta. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



"YCS" PAWNEE BOOK. 



IT is often interesting to know the motives which have 

 prompted the writing of a book. The circumstances 

 which led to the preparation of "Yo's" volume of Pawnee 

 ptories were such as, we are confident, should add to an 

 appreciation of what he has done. 



Years ago, when the Pawnees lived in Nebraska, "Yo*' 

 camped and hunted with the tribe, and joined in their 

 skirmishes with the Sioux. The evenings were given up 

 to story telling; the Pawnees, like most Indian tribes, 

 had a vast fund of stories; and some of these tales were 

 written down by the fire light in "Yo's" note book, for 

 he recognized in them many things that were worthy of 

 preservation. 



Last winter, when the story of the "Dun Horse" was 

 written out for Forest and Stream's readers, conversa- 

 tion turned one day to the Pawnees and their native 

 literature, the stories which had been transmitted from 

 generation to generation, handed down from father to 

 son, but which now, with the diminishing numbers of 

 the tribe and its changed conditions of life, were destined 

 to be forgotten. "Those stories should not be permitted 

 to perish," said "Yo," "they form the distinct, unique, 

 characteristic literature of the Pawnee people, and they 

 should be rescued from oblivion." 



The suggestion led to a plan, which has since then been 

 executed. Last March "Yo" made a literary pilgrimage 

 to the Pawnee reservation in the Indian Territory, re- 

 newed his acquaintance with Eagle Chief and other 

 ancient men of the tribe, and spent a month in patiently 

 recording the tales and traditions of the tribe. He brought 

 back a rich store of veritable treasure — tales of daring 

 and adventure, weird accounts of magic and mystery 

 and the supernatural, relations of the ways of life in the 

 old wild days, stories of war and the craft of war parties, 

 the history of the tribe as treasured by the very old men 

 and in short a fund of good things, so fresh and ingenu- 

 ous — for that is the only word that will express it— that 

 the book into which he has put them will be a genuine 

 surprise. 



Better than all else, the book is a faithful delineation 

 of the Pawnee as he is; it presents a picture of Indian 

 human nature, which is recognized as after all very 

 much like human nature all the world over. It would be 

 a mistake to regard this collection of "Pawnee Hero 

 Stories and Folk-Tales" purely as a book for entertain- 

 ment, however charming may be its pages: the higher 

 value of Mr. Grinnell's work lies in its true portraiture 



of the Indian as a human being, moved by the same im- 

 pulses, swayed by the same passions, as other men. 



The chapter recounting a buffalo hunt with the Paw- 

 nees, printed in our columns to-day. will be recognized 

 by some of our readers as based on an account published 

 in this journal some years ago. In our issue of Oct. 23 

 we shall give one of the hero stories, "Comanche Chief." 



TO RESTRICT THE NUMBER. 



"T /"ARIOUS are the schemes to restrict the killing of 

 * game. Ten years ago in these columns we dis- 

 cussed the proposition some one made to impose a tax on 

 shotguns. That was a newly discovered panacea. Tax 

 a man so much for every gun he owned; that would be 

 to discourage the possession and use of firearms. Just a 

 grain of sense in that project theoretically, but it is not 

 a plan that commends itself, nor would it accomplish the 

 desired end. It is safe to say that the question of taxing 

 firearms may safely be put to sleep, to slumber until all 

 the guns of the present day have been handed down to 

 succeeding generations. 



There is, however, a scheme of restricting the destruc- 

 tion of game which has worked well in several places 

 where fairly tested. That is the limiting of the amount 

 of game that an individual may kill in a season. Several 

 of the States ha ve placed such limitations on big game 

 and feathered game destruction, and it has accomplished 

 good results. To aver that these laws are not violated 

 would be saying too much; they are no doubt set at 

 naught in scores of cases, but in general they are 

 observed, and their effect is good. Public sentiment 

 approves of them. Take it in the Adirondacks, 

 where the number of deer one person may kill is 

 limited to three. This number is undoubtedly exceeded 

 in many instances, but the law has struck at the very 

 root of one abuse which had grown up, the senseless 

 killing merely for count. Men no longer brag of the 

 number they have killed; and deer slaughterers like Mr. 

 Polhemus, of Brooklyn, who used to hire retinues of 

 guides and dogs and strive to score the highest number of 

 deer killed in a season, have perforce given over their 

 campaigns. When mere magnitude of success is no 

 longer recognized as the test of a sportsman's achieve- 

 ments, the incentive to reckless, wasteful and senseless 

 butchery has been removed. 



That a better sentiment prevails is demonstrated among 

 club members, on the large preserves where game is 

 abundant, but where only that is killed which can be 

 utilized. Sport like all other interests is so much governed 

 by the dictates of fashion, that to make anything un. 

 fashionable is to discountenance it with a large class. To 

 frown down as unfashionable the wasteful slaying of big 

 game is, in the Adirondacks at least, equivalent to put- 

 ting an end to such killing, except of course among mar- 

 ket hunters and others who have a purely mercenary in- 

 terest in venison and antlers. 



It would be wise to extend this principle of restriction 

 to the killing of small game. In scores and scores of vil- 

 lages it is known that one or two gunners, who shoot fox- 

 market, kill most of the game. They are at it from 

 morning to night, week in and week out, shooting and 

 shipping the game, while other gunners must need stick 

 to business, blessing their stars for an occasional day in 

 the field, and with equal warmth cursing the pot-hunters 

 who have been ahead of them. It is manifestly unfair 

 that the few should have all the benefits of the game 

 supply, while the many are thus deprived of everything 

 except liberty to tramp through depleted covers. 



Now, if in the localities thus afflicted with market 

 hunters laws were enacted restricting the number of 

 quail and grouse any one person might lawfully kill in a 

 season, it would put an end to one agency of game de- 

 pletion. There is little fear that such a law would not 

 be enforced. Among sportsmen who have been thus de- 

 prived of their legitimate sport year after year there 

 would be no hesitation about bringing to book the mar- 

 ket hunters; and we might look for something approach- 

 ing enthusiasm in the congenial task of saving the game 

 to be shared by all. 



We commend this method of game preservation to the 

 careful consideration of those who dwell in pot-hunter 

 infested regions. It is, as we see it, a just, practicable 

 and efficacious system of enforcing equal rights and 

 privileges for all. The man who hunts for market is all 

 right in his place. His place is in a country where he 



can hunt without robbing others of what belongs to them. 

 In all other districts, where his persistent warfare de- 

 prives others of their reasonable and fair share in the 

 bounties of nature, he should be suppressed. The game 

 is for the public, and the public ought not to be deprived 

 of it. Restrict the number of birds to be killed by any 

 one shooter and the supply will go around. If this is not 

 a common-sense method of game protection, where are 

 its weak points';' 



THE HUMAN EYE. 



IT is a popular belief, more or less loosely formulated, 

 that there is something so terrible and majestic in 

 the human eye that man has only to fix his gaze on the 

 most terrific denizens of the forest to inspire them with 

 awe. Numerous and some well authenticated instances 

 are on record of unarmed men, who have met the lion or 

 the tiger in his native jungles, fixed their eyes on his and 

 compelled him to turn tail. There is then some founda- 

 tion for the popular belief , but if a man having unques- 

 tioned faith in the awe-inspiring power of the human 

 eye proposes to put it to the test in his own person, con- 

 siderable discretion is to be recommended, not only in 

 the selection of his beast, but also in the selection of his 

 locality. For example, he should not make his first ex- 

 periment with a rampagious bull in a ten-acre inclosure, 

 at any considerable distance from the fence, nor would 

 we strongly recommend a trip to the Rocky Mountains, 

 with the object of experimenting with a full-grown 

 grizzly, for both bulls and bears are fighting animals, 

 have the habit of meeting their foes face to face. 



The measure is successful only with the cat family- 

 lions, tigers, etc., and by no means to be relied upon with 

 them. Hope of success depends upon the fact that the 

 members of the cat family are not to any extent fighting 

 animals; they do not hunt in packs and quarrel over their 

 prey; they very rarely quarrel with each other over the 

 females at mating season, and in striking their prey they 

 never attack in front. It is a beautiful provision of na- 

 ture that the lion, the tiger, the panther, the leopards, 

 and the whole family of Felidce, are prompted by irre- 

 sistible instinct to seize their prey from behind, springing 

 on it with their whole weight, closing their powerful jaws 

 on the neck of their victim, and dislocating it with one 

 wrench, while their fierce claws penetrate the flesh and 

 paralyze the muscular powers. The tiger pursues the 

 same method whether his prey is a full grown buffalo or 

 a timid fawn. The slender doe, with her fawn at her 

 heels, goes into cover for her mid-day siesta, and con- 

 fronts the lurking tiger; she barks, stamps her foot, and 

 endeavors to bounce him: the tiger fixing his eyes on 

 hers, crawls a little nearer; paralyzed with terror the 

 poor beast is incapable of flight, but unable to sustain 

 the basilisk glance any longer, she turns, as if to essay 

 retreat. At that instant the tiger springs, grasps her 

 neck in his vise-like jaws, and the victim dies without a 

 pang. 



If the tiger comes unexpectedly on a powerful animal 

 like a wild buffalo and it offers battle, the tiger declines 

 it, but if hungry he will take advantage of what cover 

 there is and maneuver to get at the tail end of the buffalo 

 and make his fatal spring. 



With civilized men the tiger is more wary, for he 

 stands in more awe of thjeir appliances than of the brute 

 strength of the buffalo. Many a hunter going through 

 the jungles has passed within an easy spring of the tiger 

 lying in wait for him, and before he has gone another 

 two hundred yards the same tiger has again been in 

 position, and yet has wanted the courage to spring; even 

 a man-eatiug tiger, if familiar with firearms, might hes- 

 itate to spring on a man that had the courage to confront 

 him. In the jungle he would not attempt it; if brought 

 face to face with a man he would crouch, and if the man 

 did not turn to flee the tiger would disappear as suddenly 

 as if the earth had swallowed him, but in a very few 

 minutes he would have secured the desired vantage 

 ground and made his fatal spring. 



This is not because the tiger is a coward, nor because 

 the human eye is capable of dominating him. When it 

 becomes a question of fighting there is no sign of quailing 

 in lion or tiger, but when it is a mere question of taking 

 their prey, the destructive instinct is a purely pleasurable 

 one, the enjoyment of which would be marred if they 

 attacked in front, and provoked their prey to battle; and 

 it is a merciful provision Qf nature that they show no- 

 such tendency, 



