 | Henry Youle Hind, Canada. Provincial Secretary's Office - 1859 - 252 sider
...from one and a half to two miles. When the skilled hunters are about to bring in a herd of buflalo from the prairie, they direct the course of the gallop...themselves for a moment and wave their robes, immediately however hiding again. This serves to turn the buffalo slightly in another direction ; and when the... | |
 | 1860 - 612 sider
...designate dead men, and which serve to guide the buffalo when at full speed, were arranged. The dead meu extended a distance of four miles into the prairie,...themselves for a moment and wave their robes, immediately however hiding again. This serves to turn the buffalo slightly in another direction ; and when the... | |
 | 1860 - 772 sider
...intervening distance of from one to two miles, narrow to fifty paces at the entrance into the pound. " When the skilled hunters are about to bring in a herd...space marked out by the 'dead men,' show themselves fora moment and wave their robes, immediately hiding again. This serves to turn the buffalo slightly... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 478 sider
...fifty feet apart, and between the extremity of the rows might be a distance of from one-and-a-half to two miles. " "When the skilled hunters are about...stationed in hollows or small depressions, who, when the buffaloes appear inclined to take a direction leading from the space marked out by the 'dead men,'... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 448 sider
...fifty feet apart, and between the extremity of the rows might be a distance of from one-and-a-half to two miles. " When the skilled hunters are about...stationed in hollows or small depressions, who, when the buffaloes appear inclined to take a direction leading from the space marked out by the ' dead men,'... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1889 - 884 sider
...O 1 I two rows gradually diverged uutil at their extremities they were from 1£ to 2 miles apart. " When the skilled hunters are about to bring in a herd of buffalo from the prairie," says Professor Hind, " they direct the course of the gallop of the alarmed animals by confederates... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1889 - 870 sider
...C O > two rows gradually diverged until at their extremities they were from 1£ to 2 miles apart. " When the skilled hunters are about to bring in a herd of buffalo from the prairie," says Professor Hind, " they direct the course of the gallop of the alarmed animals by confederates... | |
 | D. W. Oates - 1914 - 224 sider
...about fifty feet apart, and between the extremity of the rows might be a distance of from one mile and a half to two miles. " When the skilled hunters...and wave their robes, immediately hiding again. This to turn the buffalo slightly in another direction, and when the animals, having arrived between the... | |
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... to two miles. When the skilled hunters are about to bring in a herd of buffalo from the prairie, they direct the course of the gallop of the alarmed animals by confederates stationed in hollows or small depressions, who, when the buffalo appear inclined... 