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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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all dropping,moist with saliva, adhered sufficiently to the powder. SOUNDING THE RECALL. 369 The second steeple-chase—in pursuit of the cows—lasted about twenty minutes. The recall was thensounded by a youngSioux, who, with awooden trumpet, ut-tered three distinctnotes by separate ac-tions of the tongue,and repeated themrapidly after theirfirst intonation. Theprimitive heraldobeyed the orders ofRahm-o-j-or, andsoon all our companyreassembled in thecentre of the battle-field, where they be-gan to count the slain.All the bisons hadnot fallen in the sameplace; their carcasseswere scattered all a-long the line of flightfollowed by the start-led herd, which was now disappearing rapidly in the mistsof the horizon. The ofiicial repoii; delivered to the Sioux chieftainnumbered one hundred and forty-nine bisons as ready tobe cut up. Among these were one hundred and seventeenbulls, and thirty-two cows ; the latter were far preferableto the former as food, for the flesh of the bull is muskv,
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A YOUNG SIOUX, WITH A WOODEN TRUMPET. 370 DIVIDING THE SPOIL. leathery, and lean. That of the cows, on the contrary, isas fat as the finest butcher-meat; and when the animalswere stripped of their hide, we found underneath a layerof fat two inches deep. My friends, Messrs. Sears, Simonton, and Delmot, hadeach killed a bison; Mr. Mead and myself could pretendonly to a share in the chase. As for our Canadians,Bonnet, Duquesne, and Gemmel, each of the three hadkilled a superb cow, which they contemplated with delight,and were engaged in flaying when we came upon the scene. The first operation undertaken by the Indians, aftercarefully stripping the animals of their skins, was todraw out the intestines, and put them aside for a bonnebouche. Next they proceeded to remove the hump, afleshy and fatty portion whose reputation is unrivalledamong the epicures of every country. After this, they cutthe fillets, and some other much appreciated portions, fitfor curing, in case of an unforeseen scarc

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