Indian  Cooks  —  Teepe  Manners  —  "  Fingers  before  Forks  "  —  The
"Tonish"  Thing  in  Serving  — How  Indians  Cook  for  Themselves  —
An  Off-Hand  Roast  —  The  Marrow-Bones  —  The  Choicest  Bonne
Bouche  —  Enormous  Feeders  —  Eating  Twenty  Pounds  at  One  Meal  —
Gluttony  of  the  Red  Skins — The  Call  for  More  —  Cunning  and
Strategy — Accumulated  Breakfasts  —  An  Astonishing  Appetite  —
Job's  Turkey  —  A  Tough  One  —  An  Abandoned  Fowl  —  An  Odd
Superstition  —  Unblushing  Cheek  —  Eating  Ten  Feet  of  Marrow
Guts  —  The  Use  of  Salt  —  Red  Pepper  and  Black  —  Selection  of  the
Entrails  —  The  Indian's  Most  Delicious  Morsel  —  My  Invitation  to
Dine  with  the  Pawnee  Chief —  A  Disgusting  Repast  —  Dog  Flesh  —
Fat  Puppy  —  Skunk  —  My  Interview  with  Stone  Calf,  .  .  271


CHAPTER  XXII.
THE  BUFFALO  AND  ITS  DESTRUCTION  — THE  INDIAN'S    GREAT
FALL  HUNT  — EXCITING  ADVENTURES.
The  Indian  and  the  Buffalo  — The  Old  Days  of  Plenty  —  Habits  and
Instincts  —  Immense  Herds  —  A  Column  Fifty  Miles  Wide,  and
of  Unknown  Depth  —  A  Thrilling  Adventure  at  Pawnee  Rock  —
Danger  from  a  Stampeded  Herd  —  "Splitting"  the  Column  —  Safe
at  Last  —  Scenes  of  Wild  Animation  —  Mistaken  Ideas  of  Old  Plains
men —  How  the  Indians  Hunt  Buffalo  —  The  "Surround"  —  Closing
In  for  the  Attack  —  The  Signal  —Wild  Onset  of  Warriors  —  Desperate
Resistance  —  The  Slaughter  —  The  Sioux  Plan  —  My  Camp  on  Big
Coon  Creek  —  My  Adventure  with  a  Panic-stricken  Herd  —  A  Camp
Aroused  at  Midnight  —  Hairbreadth  Escape  —  The  Extinction  of  the
Buffalo — Wanton  Slaughter  —  Barbarous  Practices,  .  .  282


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CHAPTER  XXIII.
