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tho wounded animal fell, rolled on its side, and expired. It was quite dead 
when we reached it. In the mean time ]\Ir. Bell had continued in hot 
haste after the other, and Mr. ILuirm and Mr. Bamnu had each selected, 
an:l were following one of (he main party. 3 Ir. Bell shot, and his hall 
fooh elfest in the buttocks of the animal. At this raomesit Mr. SumaF.’s 
horse threw him over his head fully ten feet ; ho fell on his powder-horn 
and was .severely bruised ; lie called to same one to stop his horse and was 
.soon 01 his leg.s, but felt sick for a few moments. Friend H.irris, who 
was perfectly cool, neared his bull, shot it tlirough the lungs, and it 
fell dead on the spot. Mr. Belt, was .still in pursuit of his wounded ani- 
m.al and Mr. Harris and Mr. Suuirb joined and followed the fourth, which, 
however, was soon out of sight. We .saw Mr. Bell shoot two or three 
times, and heard guns fired, either by Mr. Harris or Mr. SamuE, but the 
weatUer was so hot that fearful of injuring their horses they were 
obliged to allow the bull they pursued to escape. The one shot by Mr. 
Bell, tumbled upon his knee.s, got up again, and ru.shed on one of the 
hunters, wlm shot it once more, when it paused, and almost immediately 
fell deail. 
The tiesh of the Buffaloes thus killed was sent to the fort in the cart, and 
we continued our route and passed the night on the prairie, at a spot 
about half way between the Yellow-.Stone and the Missouri rivers. Here, 
just before sundown, seven more bulls were discovered by the hunters, and 
All. Harris, Afr. Bell and Air. CuIjBertson each killed one. In this part 
of (he prairie we observed several burrows made, by the swift fox, but 
could not see any of those animals although wo watched for some time 
In hopes of doing so. They probably scented our party and would not ap- 
proaoh. liie hunters on the prairies, either from hunger or because they 
have not a very delicate appetite, sometimes break in the skull of a buffalo 
and eat the brains raw. At sunrise we were all up, and soon had our coffee, 
afeer which a mulatto man called Lapleue, an excellent hunter at- 
tached to the American Fur-Company, accompanied A'lr. Harris and Afr. 
Bell on a hunt for antelopes, as we wanted no more Buffaloes. After 
waiting the return of the party, who came back unsuccessful, we broke 
up our c.amp and turned our steps homeward. 
File Buffalo bulls which have been with their fair ones are at this 
season wretchedly poor, but some of them, which appear not to have much 
loudness fer the latter, or may have been driven off by their rivals, are 
m pretty good condition. The prairies are in some iilaces whitened with 
the skulls of the Buffalo, dried and bleached by the summer’s sun and the 
frosts and snows of those severe latitudes in winter, Thousands are killed 
