but as the hunters of the far west, and, indeed,

travellers generally, have adopted the misnomer, we bow

to the authority of custom and adopt it too.

Buffaloes roam in countless thousands all over the

North American prairies, from the Hudson Bay Territories,

north of Canada, to the shores of the Gulf of

Mexico.

The advance of white men to the west has driven

them to the prairies between the Missouri and the Rocky

Mountains, and has somewhat diminished their numbers;