Bisons (or buffaloes) description of, [p. 247].—Habits of, [p. 248].—Bulls’ fighting—Buffalo wallows—Fairy circles, [p. 249], pls. [105], [106].—Running the buffaloes, and throwing the arrow, [p. 251], pl. [107].—Buffalo chase—Use of the laso, [p. 253], pls. [108], [109].—Hunting under masque of white wolfskins, [p. 254], [pl. 110].—Horses destroyed in buffalo hunting, [p. 255], [pl. 111].—Buffalo calf—Mode of catching and bringing in, [p. 255], [pl. 112].—Immense and wanton destruction of buffaloes—1,400 killed, [p. 256].—White wolves attacking buffaloes, [p. 257–8], pls. [113], [114].—Contemplations on the probable extinction of buffaloes and Indians, [p. 258, 264].
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LETTER—No. 1.
As the following pages have been hastily compiled, at the urgent request of a number of my friends, from a series of Letters and Notes written by myself during several years’ residence and travel amongst a number of the wildest and most remote tribes of the North American Indians, I have thought it best to make this page the beginning of my book; dispensing with Preface, and even with Dedication, other than that which I hereby make of it, with all my heart, to those who will take the pains to read it.
If it be necessary to render any apology for beginning thus unceremoniously my readers will understand that I had no space in these, my first volumes, to throw away; nor much time at my disposal, which I could, in justice, use for introducing myself and my works to the world.