way they met hundreds of women and children going

to the scene of the great hunt, for it was their special

duty to cut up the meat and carry it into camp. The

men, considering that they had done quite enough in

killing it, returned to smoke and eat away the fatigues

of the chase.

As they rode along, Dick Varley observed that some

of the "braves," as Indian warriors are styled, were

eating pieces of the bloody livers of the buffaloes in a

raw state, at which he expressed not a little disgust.