CHAPTER XXIV.

We visit the Cree camp--I lose Maple and the pups--Find our Indian friends "pound-keeping"--The Indian buffalo pound--Consecrating the pound--Mr. Who-Brings-Them-In--Running the buffalo in--The herd safely coralled--Wholesale slaughter--Apportioning the hunt--Finis

ILLUSTRATIONS.

"I made a fire, and by melting snow boiled my kettle" ... Frontispiece

"The dogs and sleds went sliding in around him"

"There he sat, his eyes bulging out with fear"

"The discharge of shot, bounding from this, struck both father and his horse"

"To save my life I had to climb to the top of the staging"

"I got Tom up, and held him close over the fire"

"I bounded from before him for my life"

"I headed her out again into the lake"

"I took deliberate aim, and fired at him"

"We went at a furious rate on that swirling, seething, boiling torrent"

Rev. Thomas Woolsey

"Tying our clothes in bundles above our heads, we started into the ice-cold current"

"Slapping his head, I turned his course to smooth ground"

"Maskepetoon calmly ...took out his Cree Testament ... and began to read"

"This strange Indian, without looking at us, sang on"

"Slapped-in-the-Face, take that one"

SADDLE, SLED AND SNOWSHOE