The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen32Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1848 |
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Página 317 - Chatillon, who followed, dispatched her with his rifle, and loaded his horse with her meat. We encamped close to the river. The night was dark, and as we lay down we could hear mingled with the howlings of wolves the hoarse bellowing of the buffalo, like the ocean beating upon a distant coast. CHAPTER XXV THE BUFFALO CAMP In pastures measureless as air, The bison is my noble game.
Página 314 - From the river bank on the right, away over the swelling prairie on the left, and in front as far as we could see, extended one vast host of buffalo. The outskirts of the herd were within a quarter of a mile. In many parts they were crowded so densely together that in the distance their rounded backs presented a surface of uniform blackness ; but elsewhere they were more scattered, and from amid the multitude rose little columns of dust where the buffalo were rolling on the ground.