4to., pp. i-ix, 1-246, 1 col’d map, 12 pl., 13 ll. explanatory, 2 wood-cuts in text.
These two publications were simultaneous, and only differed in the titles. Unfortunately both are of greater rarity than the reprint referred to above.
[22] Lewis and Clark’s Exped., II, p. 395.
[23] On the plains of Dakota, the Rev. Mr. Belcourt (Schoolcraft’s N. A. Indians, IV, p. 108) once counted two hundred and twenty-eight buffaloes, a part of a great herd, feeding on a single acre of ground. This of course was an unusual occurrence with buffaloes not stampeding, but practically at rest. It is quite possible also that the extent of the ground may have been underestimated.
[24] Plains of the Great West, p. xvi.
[25] Catlin’s North American Indians, II, p. 13.
[26] Our captive had, in some way, bruised the skin on his forehead, and in June all the hair came off the top of his head, leaving it quite bald. We kept the skin well greased with porpoise oil, and by the middle of July a fine coat of black hair had grown out all over the surface that had previously been bare.
[27] North American Indians, I, 255.
[28] Plains of the Great West, pp. 124, 125.
[29] Quadrupeds of North America, vol. II, pp. 38, 39.