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Title: The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Révoil, Bénédict Henry, 1816-1882 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Keyniere and Brillat-Savarin,—I declare and assert that if these distinguishedgastronomes had ever had at their disposal an entirebison, full of fat, well-nourished, and in every respectresembling the animal immolated upon Eahm-o-j-ors tentharrow, they would have added to their unparalleled re-cipes another chapter, whose text would have eclipsedeverything which has secured their immortality as culinaryartistes. AFTER THE FEAST, THE DANCE ! 373 In the evening, when the banquet was at an end, andthe fire-water with which the flesh of the bisons hadbeen bedewed had stimulated the brains and dispelledthe apathy inherent to an Indian\s disposition, a newspectacle was presented to our astonished eyes : fires werelighted at numerous points along the mountain-ridge, andbefore each blazing pile, men and women, naked, andshining as if they had been dipped in a bath of oil, sur-rendered themselves to the enjoyment of the most fantas-tic gambols, and of indescribable contortions, recalling the
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THE ENJOYMENT OF THE MOST FANTASTIC GAMBOLS. plantation-dances of the Louisiana negroes. No instru-ment encouraged these athletes in their wild measures;but a few hoarse voices chanted an accented melody, whichserved as an accompaniment to the variations modulatedad infinitum and ad libitum by one or other of the cory-phees. A single guitar resounded in front of our tent,and however unskilfully its chords were strummed, itdid not the less produce on the ears of the Sioux all the 374 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BISON. impression of a celestial harmony. I will relate the his-tory of this instrument before I close my book; but, first,let us return to our bisons. I do not think there would be any utility in describingto my readers the form, and size, and habits of this genusof the bovine race. BufFon, and above all, Audubon, havetraced with a masters hand a complete picture of itscharacteristics. I shall limit myself, therefore, to a record of the promi-nent features and peculiarities which ou

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