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needs experience to carry his rider through with safety. Upon
reaching the herd, the hunter dashes in at the cows, which, are easily
recognized by the fineness of their robes and their smaller forms. The
white man hunter, of all weapons, prefers a revolver; but, the red man
uses the lance, and bow and arrows, which he handles with remarkable
dexterity. The place of election to make the deadly wound is just
behind the fore shoulder where the long, shaggy mane of the hump
is intersected by the short hair of the body. The death-wound being
given, the blood gushes out in torrents and the victim, after a few
bounds, falls on her knees with her head bunting into the ground. If,
by chance, a vital organ is not reached, the pain of the wound makes
the stricken animal desperately courageous. She turns upon her pursuer
with terrible earnestness ready to destroy him. It is now that the
horse is to be depended upon. If well trained, he will instantly wheel
and place himself and rider out of harm's way; but, woe to both horse
and hunter if this is not done. The lives of both are in imminent
danger. In case the buffalo is killed, the hunter rides up, dismounts
and makes his lariet fast to the horns of his game. He next proceeds
to cut up the meat and prepare it for his pack animals which he should
have near by. By their aid he easily carries it into camp.

It would doubtless afford many a page of exciting interest could we
carry the reader through all the varied scenes of the chase in which
Kit Carson has been the principal actor. To transmit to our narrative
a choice fight with the fierce old grizzly bear; or, perchance, a fine
old buffalo bull turning on his destroyer with savage ferocity; or, a
wounded panther, with its inevitable accompaniment in the shape of a
hand-to-hand encounter for dear life, each of such could not fail in
giving interest to the general reader. We are forced, against our
own conviction of the duty we owe the public as Kit Carson's chosen
Biographer, to pass by all such acts of his personal daring
and triumph because of his own unwillingness to relate them for
publication. Notwithstanding our urgent requests, backed up by the
advice and interference of friends, Kit Carson is inflexibly opposed
to relating such acts of himself. He is even more willing to speak of
his failures, though such are few, rather than of his victories in
the chase. While the description of these adventures could not fail
to furnis