FOREST AND STREAM. 
on a wrong course. This small party consisted of eight in- 
dividuals — one man, four women, and three children; one 
an infant, was strapped or laced to its cradle, and placed 
upright against the side of the wigwam, as any piece of do- 
mestic furniture might be. They had left St. George’s 
Harbor three months before, since then, had been 
in the interior, and intended to spend the Winter at Great 
Cod Rov River in St. George’s Buy. As every hour was 
precious towards the final accomplishment of my object, I 
proposed to my Indian host to accompany me to St. 
George's Bay; my offer was agreed to and a stipulation 
made to set off in two hours. In the absence of this Indian, 
who told me his name was Gabriel, his family — consisting] 
fts already observed, of females and children — were pro- 
vide for themselves. For this purpose two guns and am- 
munition were left with them. One of the young women 
was a capital shot; during oui halt with them she left the 
camp and shot a deer close by. Having partaken of the 
best piece of venison the interior could produce, together 
with smoked deers’ tongues, we set off. Owing to our en- 
feebled condition, this man’s vigor and strength were en- 
viable. 
(To be continued.) 
5 
For Forest and Stream. 
SHOOTING ON THE COAST OF ENGLAND 
A BOUT seven years ago, I was stopping in an English 
village, situated on “The Waste," of English his- 
toric renown. One sharp, frosty afternoon, as I was strol- 
ling along the road, smoking a pipe, and watching the blue 
smoke fade into air, I was accosted from behind, by the 
following words: — 
“Oloa sur ! where going to?" 
“Oh, Jnbez I it is you ? how are you?" said I as I 
turned round and saw the village fisherman, duck shooter 
and general “Jack of all trades” of the place. “Anything 
doing down shore?" ° 
“Well, yes," said he; “there's some good sport down 
there just now. I made a pretty middling good bn" of it 
yesterday. I recommend you to try a day before this frost 
“All right, Jabez, I’ll think about it.” By this time we 
were opposite the village public house. We walked in 
and taking a seat at the bar-room table, Jabez gave me 
some useful hints, and very interesting and important in- 
formation as to the time of the tide, the location of the 
creeks, and strongly impressed on my mind the necessity 
of steering home as soou as the tide turned, as if not, I 
should be loo late for the ducks returning from their day 
spent inland. 
Accordingly, in the evening, as I was smoking my cigar 
I proposed to my brother Ned that we should take a day 
beyond the hank after wild fowl. 
"All right,” he said; “I was thinking of proposing it 
myself.” b 
“I guess we had better sling our rifles on our backs, as I 
hear that there are some stray swans down this hard 
Wiuter,” he continued. 
Whilst finishing our weed we concluded to rise at about 
seven o clock, and retired early, thinking of the morrow’s 
sport. We were up in good time the next morning, eager 
for the fray, and demolished a very huge breakfast, after 
which, letting our retrievers, Bang and Sling, out of their 
kennel, we set off on our expedition. Confoundedly cold 
it was, but walking fast, by the time we reached the bank 
we were in a perfect glow. Before proceeding farther, it 
may be well to describe the sort of ground we were iroinir 
to shoot over: — b 
The bank, so frequently referred to, is an embankment 
of engineering construction, erected some years ago at the 
time of the reclamation of land from the sea— a necessity 
to keep the water from again flowiug over land that before 
belonged to it. Beyond this bank the shore was flat for 
about, four miles, and at low tide perfectly dry, with the 
exception of large creeks running about in all directions, 
the outflow of all the sea and iuland water into the ocean. 
I he first mile and a half is covered with a coarse grass and 
samphire; the remainder of the distance down to the sea 
is hard, black mud, with quicksands here and there and 
running about in all directions in the grassy portions are 
little creeks about three feet wide, not at all pleasant when 
it is known that the exact edge of them is ungetatablc 
through being covered with a sort of weed. This is the 
description of the exact ground when discernable in Sum- 
mer, but what it looked like in the depth of Winter is 
quite another tiling; but as we had arrived at the foot of 
the bank, I will describe what we saw on the top. 
Clambering up it when about three feet deep in snow is 
no easy matter, and we should, anyhow, have paused on 
its summit to get our breath, but I think perfect astonish- 
ment reigned supreme in both our minds for the first few 
minutes that we gazed on the unexpected and wonderful 
sight that then met our view. There had been several 
heavy snow storms we knew, but we expected that the tide 
would have taken it off each day as it fell, but such was 
not the case. The tide up to that time had not risen so 
high us to come within a mile of the bank. The snow had 
partially thawed and then frozen, making blocks of snow 
ice, and the next fall of snow drifting had also lhawedund 
then frozen, making a liu^c ice barrier all along of about a 
mile in depth to be passed before we could tret to anything 
like good shooting ground. The first thing I did was to 
give vent to a very impressive whistle, my brother’s reply 
•cing, that, he thought we had better “try back ’’ But "l 
was determined to go through it. and accordingly lead the 
way down the bank. Striking off in different directions 
aller having determined where we should reudesvous we 
were soon out of sight and hearing among the ice blocks 
although occasionally we caught sight of each other when 
on *°P of a pile of ice, snow, etc. 
We had determined that unless some rare game rose, not 
to fire a shot until we arrived beyond the ice, as down on 
me mud the majority of the game would be feeding; but I 
was soon annoyed to hear a double shot from Ned and 
time ^mflH l ° io rep,y ? l . lhe first opportunity, but for some 
m mv ^ n( "hing, although previously I had had 
wlfm . i ! IU curIew - Kut 113 1 climbed up an extra 
!l r ll CrH f’ Isaw 11 B°°se down in a hollow filled with salt 
ater. 1 was puzzled to see a single goose, but for a 
moment thought that the rest of the flock was hidden from 
tion H n . b ed d ? Tn ’ and hy S reat care and precau- 
ri?. l I- Cee £ ed n ™ kin s m - v way over a very rough path 
^ n ^;^ 1 “. fift y,y ar . d ?> when the bird rose aDd it sent the 
Sn iu° f n Y lefl r ‘Sht under its wing. It came 
down all in a heap and Bar- was at it directly, but found 
l 
it hard to retrieve ns the goose being only winged fixed 
it s beak into the dog’s flank, which, if his howls were to 
be taken as evidence, was most excessively unpleasant to 
him. rearing lest lie should forget himself, and so injure 
the plumage, l hurried to his assistance, but, unfortunately, 
when within about ten yards, 1 stumbled and came down' a 
cropper, causing my nose to bleed freely and severely bruis- 
mg myself all over. 1 slit some pieces from my handker- 
chief, with which I effectually plugged my nose and pro- 
ceeded on my journey for the relief of Bang. Little did I 
expect the old dog would have behaved himself so well, 
for, although lie had held the bird for quite a time, he had 
hardly ruffed the feathers — a thing I was very anxious 
about, as the singular fact of the bird being solitary, had 
impressed me with the idea that it was a rare specimen - 
and when 1 got up to it I found I was right, although until 
1 had shown the bird to some accepted authorities, 1 did 
not know that I had been fortunate enough to shoot an 
Egytian goose. I soou afterwards succeeded in killiiig'soine 
down"a hr btdore 6 ctt ing to the open ground I brought 
I think few people ever have felt a greater sense of re- 
lict than I did when I had got clear of the suow-lce, and 
was able to walk on comparatively Arm ground with ouick- 
sand only to look out fur. M 
Here we, both of us, kept up a pretty lively'bang I bang I 
small game being plentiful, sand birds, stuit, sea snipe, (a 
large kind of stuit,) and sundry other small sea birds giv- 
ing us some fun. At last I began to feel very tired, both 
from the effects of my fall and a good heavy weight of 
game to carry, (although I afterwards tied all my small fry 
to Bang s neck and myself carried the goose and heron ) 
and fired four shots ns a signal to Ned that I thought it was 
lime to be returning to the bank, where we intended to 
wait fleet, a Linconshire expression for waiting for the 
nocks of ducks to pass over on their way to the sea after their 
day in the country, where they feed. Ned commenced to 
walk toward me, and consequently wc soon joined, and of 
coupe we cross-examined each other as to our sport so far 
1 told him and showed him what I had, and in return, 1 
fouud that ho had nailed a heron, six brace of curlew, a 
stray mallard, some gulls, and, like me, a quantity of stuit 
and other small fry. Bang soon grew tired of his load, 
which was too much for him to scramble over the ice with 
so I had again to shoulder it, pitching into my brother 
pretty roundly for having proposed bringing our rifles, as 
we had not seen a single swan all day, although I saw some 
in the market of the “Post town," Boston, a few days after- 
wards, but in such starved condition as to make them not 
worth shooting. 
I need not weary you by an account of our journev back 
to the bank; sulflce it to say that after a heavy piece of 
work for nearly an hour, we arrived there after many ad- 
ventures, such as suddenly finding ourselves in one of lhe 
tiny little creeks I referred to above, sitting down rather 
unexpectedly, and all that sort of tiling. The next thing 
on the programme was to take our position under the shade 
c b j Ilk t0 ** wa * t fleet.’’ This we did, standing about 
~00 yards apart. YVe waited anxiously for the expected 
quackle ! quackle 1 of the flocks, which came soon aud 
we were fortunate to get about four double shots a piece 
at very short range into flocks, although, of course, many 
passed to both the left and right, and some between us. 
But those that, came anyway near us, fared badly, as a 
strong head wind kept them very low. About half past 
four it became too dark to see to shoot, so we collected all 
we could find, which came to, I think, thirteen couple of 
ducks, which, with our previous load, we did not know 
how to carry. But, as a last resort, we took one of the 
rifles, and tying the game to it, we carried it on our 
shoulders. On the way Ned proposed paying u visit to u 
neighboring farm house. 
Old Hoyles, for such was the farmer’s name, insisted on 
our stopping with him for the night, and he soou had on 
the table a good feed of ham and" eggs and cold roast beef, 
which we washed down with some good home brewed ale! 
When we had demolished a tremendous supply of victuals, 
he produced his tobacco and long clays, over which we 
had a good chat nbout our day’s sport, and when fatigue 
and exposure to the sea breeze caused us to nod in our 
chairs, we retired to bed. When I awoke iu the morning, 
the first thing I did was to put my hand to my almost 
broken nose, (a subject of great amusement the night befi. re 
to old Hoyles,) which I found very stiff. Iu fact I was 
black and blue all over, although my brother, more fortu- 
nate than myself, had escaped unhurt. After leaving some 
game with the old fellow, we bade him adieu, and arrived 
home with many pleasant thoughts of a good hurd day's 
sport after wiid fowl, and a knowledge that many years 
must elap9e before we should have such another Winter, 
and that perhaps never would the snow take another 
notion to thaw partially and then become ice, and that, 
therefore, never need we expect to see the coast present 
such a spectacle again. 
To my mind our sport, although hard work, wan sport, 
and much more manly and amusing than the most magnifi- 
cent lordly balteau, that ever nobility invented. In fact, 
when it comes down to the point, I would have, then, 
rather walked a whole day with good working dogs for 
two brace of birds than be able to count my killed by the 
hundreds when I knew that they had been driven, as it 
were, into the cannon's mouth by scores of beaters; and 1 
think that such so-called sportsmen should be told that 
manliness appreciates sport, not butchery. 
Britain. 
chew their bullets until they become so rough that the? 
can scarcely force them down their rifles. I told ouo 
ih«t th t ml t0 1 C , hew his riflo bal18 was "bad medicine," and 
h wS 8 ° cr ? okcd ’ 110 took ft bul1 ,rom b »s pouch 
that is badlj nmrrcd aud pointed to it, saving: “Good 
n ed cine-heap kill deer." I tried to show him by ifiS 
SftSTfK bclU ‘ f ' but could uot convince 1dm 
The cartridge referred to was one of Sharp's 44 cal with 
patched ball and eighty grains of powder. My red friend 
soon left me, evidently musing on the big cartridge As 
ho was leaving, I saw hint look at one of his small balls 
S&ES&iBL 11 iu ul8 1,0UCh * Mif 
, J U “ ? u ff° cou 'l ,r >' Oroa Ventres, Sioux, Assine- 
roS l n^i Ck i'i? e8 | (R ? ) Bh'gaus, Pawnees, and Utes, sur- 
round or con all a herd when hunting. In some places I 
d»v* 8C ti lud L laDS k , cop n berd of buU 'fl° corralled tor three 
dajs 1 hey keep their sentinels out on rises on the prairie 
about a mile or two, (according lo the lay of tho ground ) 
from the herd, and should tho buffalos make a “break" thiv 
are immediately headed and generally turned back by one 
MioT'u Iudl T’ , Uunlin » u, e huffulo is the chief sport of 
the Indians. In fact they are never so happy as they are 
when hunting ilie buffalo, and gormandizing on its flesh 
Indians bavin* fast homes, or iu other words, horse* that 
will catch buffalo, lie a feather lu their aulmals’ tails, aud 
should an Indtau have a horse that can easily overtake a 
buffalo, he puts an additional feather in his pony's fore- 
lock as a mark of great speed, borne or the Sioux lndiur* 
puuch holes m the back edges of their pomes' ears and tin 
them full ot bright colored silk* and worsteds, w hich are 
left pendant to fly iu the breeze. Horses are valued ac- 
cording to their feathers, aud should au Indian wish to buy 
a horse he Immediately asks its owner it the pony can 
catch a buffalo. Indians seldom hunt alone far from their 
villages. First, It Is against the rules of their tribe— und 
secondly, they are ulruid of losing their scalp*. Should 
an Indian go hunting “on tho sly" und be found out, ho 
will he 'soldiered," or have his dollies cut to pieces when 
lie returns to camp. Regular hunting parlies are orga.t- 
ized lo extend their hums to uuy locality agreed upon. 
When running buffalo each individual has two pouics, one 
of which he leads; they ure ridden alternately during a 
hum. War parties also use “lead" hone*. Borne ludiuu* 
still use the bow for hunting, bul they are mostly old men 
who ure too poor to owu a rifle. The Winchester ciublue 
is the favorite gun with tho Indians for war or burning. 
Many of them Jiuve the Springlleld needle guns, und 1 liuvo 
seen some Individuals do good shooting with them. It an 
Indian is short of ammunition he will lake his robe or blanket 
from bis buck and trade U for a few cartridges , When 
chasing the buffalo over u rolling prairie, they are followed 
leisurely by the hunter until n bund reaches u hill, when 
the nimble Indian pony of the hunter makes two Jumps to 
the buffalo’s one when asccmllng the hill, und lima darts 
forward among the them, giving his rider a chuttcu to 
empty his Winchester. Bulls are seldom killed by tho 
Indians, as tho flesh and silken robes of the cows ure the 
desiderata. 
When the chase is over the hunter* claim their game nml 
dress It us follows:— Tito skin is removed and loo quarters 
severed from the body. The leg bones arc cracked and the 
marrow saved Tor making pomicun. The brums ol the 
cows ure also used for eating and tunning. The flesh is 
taken from the animal iu flakes uud piled on to thu poor 
little ponies until they are heavily loaded, then Air. Lo 
mounts on top of the meat, and tho ill-used lmlo beasts 
slugger away under their double loads. Tho entrails arc 
partially cleaned, looped ou a slick, roasted over a cutup 
fire and then greedily devoured us titbits. It a party of 
Indiuos ure not hunting in uu enemy's country the squaws 
are “permitted" to do all the drudgery ol preparing the 
meat. Early iu thu neasou few skins ure use I, except lor 
making teepies or lodges. When the Winter com of tho 
buffalo is about half grown then the Indians commenco 
tanning robes for trading and for their own use. A Ulo 
Indian will sell a good robe for live dollurs. The Indians 
ia northern Montana ask eight and leu dollars for robes. 
The Chippewa* are thu best trappers I have seen among 
the different tribes. 1 have kuowu one young Chippewa 
buck to tend forty traps. The majority of the aboug ues 
ure too lazy to trup. in conclusion, 1 would say, luiinna, 
as a class, arc good hunters bul poor shots. * They are 
patient, and will wail in a coul6 on the trail of u baud of 
antelope all day, if necessary, lo obiain a shot. lu the 
timber they are equally good at finding gumo, uud watch 
runways und watering places until gume is killed. Indiuos 
will not tramp ufter gume if they can get it by watching. 
Moccasin, 
Little Elk Iiicer , Minnesota, January 21th, 1875. 
For Forts t and Stream. 
HOW INDIANS HUNT. 
I T is generally supposed that the Indiums never make use 
of their dogs when hunting, but do their own driving 
on foot. There arc, however, some tribes that use dogs 
successfully in the chase. The Chippewa Indians sur- 
round some favorite feeding ground of the deer, and one 
Indian turns the dogs loose in the centre of (he enclosed 
space. Some of the dogs are well trained and hunt inde- 
pendently of euch other, aud it often happens that several 
deer are killed at one drive. The number of hunters en- 
gaged in a drive is limited, according to the number of 
runways to be manned. Large parties often “split" up and 
hunt in localities adapted to their numbers. Sometimes 
the Chippewus still hunt singly. They have trails cut 
through their hunting grounds, as nearly purallel as they 
can make them, so that when they are hunting there arc 
no dead sticks to crack, aud alarm the game, or any twigs 
to obstruct the hunter's view. Many Indians foolishly 
IIidkh. — Americuu hides lmvc now bccomo a large and 
permanent article of export to Europe. American leather 
is in staple dcinanu in Europe also, and is shipped in large 
quantities. This results from the enormous Increase iu the 
stock of cattle since the war. In Kansas, Texas, Colorado, 
Nebraska and Wyoming a farmer can double his cupilul in 
twenty months iu beef cuttle, and the business requires 
little beyond the guarding of the herd. In all the holder 
States immense herds of cuttle are raised ou whul is called 
"the runge," that is the open public domain, lhe owner* 
not being possessed of an acre of land. It is from these 
limitless multitudes of cattle that our markets are supplied 
with beeves, uud even this demand scarcely doe* more Ilian 
carry off the increase. The prospect appear* to he ihut 
our country is destined to become the greatest producer of 
hides in the world. Tho interest has not yet developed 
itself West of the Rocky Alountnins, except in southern 
California, where it is beboming immense. 
Sea Moss.— Considerable business is done at Kittcry, Me., 
in collecting and drying sea moss, wliicli is collected in 
dories, in the neighborhood of YVhaJe’s Buck und White 
Island. Rakes ure used, which at half tide tear the moss 
fiom the rocks. It is taken to the beaches nod bedded and 
bleached. It has to be turned like buy. When (tried it is 
packed in barrels and sent to Bistou, selling at six cents 
per pound. Large quantities aro used by brewers lu settling 
ale. 
