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Usage examples of buffaloes.

Potts scoffed at him for being frightened by the trampling of a herd of buffaloes.

The exterior of the Omaha lodges have often a gay and fanciful appearance, being painted with undulating bands of red or yellow, or decorated with rude figures of horses, deer, and buffaloes, and with human faces, painted like full moons, four and five feet broad.

On one of these they killed three buffaloes and two elks, and halting on the edge of a beautiful prairie, made a sumptuous hunter's repast.

Sometimes, where the river passed between high banks and bluffs, the roads made by the tramp of buffaloes for many ages along the face of the heights, looked like so many well-travelled highways.

Now and then a herd of deer would be seen feeding tranquilly among the flowery herbage, or a line of buffaloes, like a caravan on its march, moving across the distant profile of the prairie.

The buffaloes stood gazing quietly at the barge as it approached, perfectly unconscious of their danger.

Besides the buffaloes they saw abundance of deer, and frequent gangs of stately elks, together with light troops of sprightly antelopes, the fleetest and most beautiful inhabitants of the prairies.

Ever since they had got among these barren and arid hills where there was a deficiency of grass, they had met with no buffaloes.

In the autumn, when salmon disappear from the rivers, and hunger begins to pinch, they even venture down into their ancient hunting grounds, to make a foray among the buffaloes.

The defile bore traces of having been a thoroughfare for countless herds of buffaloes, though not one was to be seen.

The hunters made great havoc among the buffaloes, and brought in quantities of meat.

Tracks of buffaloes were to be seen in all directions, but none of a fresh date.

There were signs of buffaloes having been there, but a long time before.

The salmon, which are the prime fish of the Columbia, and as important to the piscatory tribes as are the buffaloes to the hunters of the prairies, do not enter the river until towards the latter part of May, from which time, until the middle of August, they abound and are taken in vast quantities, either with the spear or seine, and mostly in shallow water.

Here and there they passed the skulls and bones of buffaloes, which showed that these animals must have been hunted here during the past season.