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by plunging lances into her bosom.

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The winter being far advanced, and considerable drifts of land snow on the ground, thousands of buffaloes resorted to the vicinity of the villages. We had great pleasure in seing the Indians go into the fields, surround and kill whole droves of them; the best parts only of the meat were taken home the rest remained to rot on the field. At times the Indians At other times the indians would congregate in gre vas great numbers and continue to drive large herds to the vicinity banks of the Mississouri, and by gradual approaches confine them into a narrow space as the ice where the ice was weakest, until by their own weight and pressure, large squares of ice some of fifty yards, would give way and vast numbers of animals were plunged into the river, and carried by the current and under the solid ice to a "snare" a little below where they emerged again emerged, floated, and were received by crowds of women and children provided wh with the proper hooks and instruments to haul them on on the ice, which in a short time became strewed with dead carcasses. Here they were left for some time to […] take flavour! Then carried home and at feasts considered a great delicacy.

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