 | Art - 1860 - 612 pages
...converging lines. At the entrance to the pound, there is a strong trunk of a tree placed about one foot from the ground, and on the inner side a shallow excavation...closely in the rear of the buffalo, spear or shoot with bows and arrows or firearms at the bewildered animals rapidly becoming mad with rage and terror, within... | |
 | Henry Youle Hind - Assiniboine River (Sask. and Man.) - 1860 - 556 pages
...to gallop round and round the ring fence looking for a chance of escape, but with the utmost silence women and children on the outside hold their robes...orifice until the whole herd is brought in ; they then cUfflb to the top of the fence, and, with the hunters who have followed closely in the rear of the... | |
 | 1860 - 772 pages
...orifice until the whole herd is brought in : they then cliuib to ' the top of the fence, and, witli the hunters who have followed closely in the rear of the buffalo, spear or shoot, with bows and arrows or fire-arms, at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming frantic with rage and terror,... | |
 | James Greenwood - Conduct of life - 1863 - 478 pages
...gallop round and round the ring-fence, looking for a chance of escape ; but •with the utmost silence women and children on the outside hold their robes...hunters, who have followed closely in the rear of the buffaloes, spear, or shoot with bow and arrows and firearms at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming... | |
 | James Greenwood - Anthropology - 1863 - 448 pages
...gallop round and round the ring-fence, looking for a chance of escape ; but with the utmost silence women and children on the outside hold their robes...hunters, who have followed closely in the rear of the buffaloes, spear, or shoot with bow and arrows and firearms at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming... | |
 | America North - 1864 - 396 pages
...the ring fence, looking for a chance of escape, but with the utmost silence men, women, and children hold their robes before every orifice until the whole...hunters, who have followed closely in the rear of the • The mode of pounding buffaloes ia very similar to that by which wild elephants are caught in Ceylon.... | |
 | Joel Asaph Allen - American bison - 1877 - 158 pages
...around the enclosure in search of some point of escape. With the utmost silence, women and children hold their robes before every orifice, until the whole herd is brought in. When all are enclosed the slaughter begins ; the hunters, climbing to the top of the fence, spear or... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - Geology - 1877 - 1046 pages
...around the enclosure in search of some point of escape. With the utmost silence, women and children hold their robes before every orifice, until the whole herd is brought in. When all are enclosed the slaughter begins ; the hunters, climbing to the top of the fence, spear or... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1877 - 1066 pages
...arouud the enclosure in search of some point of escape. With the utmost silence. women and children hold their robes before every orifice, until the whole herd is brought in. When all are enclosed the slaughter begins; the hunters, climbing to the top of the fence, spear or... | |
 | James Greenwood (journalist.) - 1878 - 510 pages
...looking for a chance of escape ; but with the utmost silence women and children on the outside hold thei' robes before every orifice, until the whole herd is...hunters, who have followed closely in the rear of the buffaloes, spear, or shoot with bow and arrows and firearms at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming... | |
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... climb to the top of the fence, and, with the hunters who have followed closely in the rear of the buffalo, spear or shoot with bows and arrows or fire-arms at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming frantic with rage and terror, within the narrow... 
