Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14596230149)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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rain that of the hunter was much more so. But to ensuresuccess, we must advance together, quietly and warily, until within two gun-shots ofthe herd. If, on the contrary, as is the case when the half-breeds have no acknowledgedleader, those possessed of fleet horses advance at full speed, leaving to the others nochance to secure a portion of the prey, there arise discord, quarrels, hatred, and alltheir train of evils. 33. The instinct of the buffalo causes them to huddle closely together when pursued.The males, if separated from the cows, then rejoin them; the latter, however, beingthe swiftest, always keeping in the front ranks. To reach them, therefore, it becomesnecessary to pierce the dense phalanx of bulls, which is a dangerous experiment.During the hunt of the previous summer, an Indian, thrown headlong from his horse,which had been overturned by a bull, was made the sport of the latter for severalminutes, being tossed into the air repeatedly, and each time received, bleeding and
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o ^ CQ MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 105 lacerated, upon the sharp horns of the infuriated beast. To give an idea of the mon-strous strength of these animals, it is sufficient to state, that one of them in traversingthe line of carts, struck a vehicle to which a horse was attached, and which was ladenat the time with more than a thousand pounds weight, and hurled it over and overthree or four times. 34. Another great danger to which the hunter is exposed, is that of finding himselfin the direction of the bulls, which are sped heedlessly on every side, and whistle ina frightful manner, while the whirlwinds of dust prevent any object being seen at adistance of ten yards. Lately, in a chase, one of the men received a bullet in hisbelly, but, luckily, the wound did not prove to be mortal. On another occasion, theball traversed the coat, shirt, and flesh of a hunter, and was only arrested by thebreast-bone. Providentially, no such accidents occurred to turn our excursion into oneof mourning. It can