The young Nimrods in North America - a book for boys (1881) (14752713085)

Identifier: youngnimrodsinno00knox (find matches)
Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers



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VDLTDRE IN A M1KAGE. 222 THE YOUNG K1MKODS. CHAPTER XVIII. MORE BUFFALO-HUNTING.—ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS. r I^IIE afternoon was well advanced before the hunters were all back in-1- camp. The rest of the day was passed in cleaning weapons andmaking preparations for an early start on the following morning, as itwas thought the herd would move farther down the valley in conse-quence of the interference that had been made on their present grazing-
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tn&tsft,yva<..» .-»-..--- vsa ^\ M^rv ,• / f^^trSi L. i i? CAMP OF BUFFALO-HUSTKKS. ground. Everybody was in the best possible humor, and the early hoursof evening were enlivened with stories of the plains which were not inall cases confined to a rigid statement of facts. BUFFALO-WALLOWS, AND THEIR USES. 223 During the mornings ride the boys had observed occasional depres-sions in the ground, in the shape of basins about ten feet in diameter andperhaps eighteen or twenty inches deep. Harry asked what they were,and was informed that they were popularly known as wallows, andwere the work of the buffaloes. In summer it frequently happens that the buffaloes become coveredwith vermin. Their skins are irritated by them, and the only way theyhave of ridding themselves of the unwelcome visitors is by rolling in thesand. Some persons think the rolling is intended to assist the removalof the hair when the animal is shedding his coat in the spring, and quitepossibly this has something