I have guarded or reather fortifyed my feet against them by soaling my mockersons with the hide of the buffaloe in parchment.
We had now nothing to do but wait for the canoes; as they had not returned I sent out some of the small party with me to hunt; in the evening they returned with a good quantity of the flesh of a fat buffaloe which they had killed.
I am informed is extreamly dangerous, if they are not very fleet runers the buffaloe tread them under foot and crush them to death, and sometimes drive them over the precepice also, where they perish in common with the buffaloe.
I then set a couple of men to pounding of charcoal to form a composition with some beeswax which we have and buffaloe tallow now my only hope and resource for paying my boat; I sincerely hope it may answer yet I fear it will not.
I observe that the Antelope, Buffaloe Elk and deer feed on this herb; the willow of the sandbars also furnish a favorite winter food to these anamals as well as the growse, the porcupine, hare, and rabbit.
I walked on shore this evening and killed a buffaloe cow and calf, we found the calf most excellent veal.
Fields down the missouri to the mouth of Medecine river in our canoe of buffaloe skins.
The mockersons of both sexes are usually the same and are made of deer Elk or buffaloe skin dressed without the hair.
I killed a fat buffaloe which was very acceptable to us at this moment; the party came up to me late in the evening and encamped for the night on the Lard.
I see very little difference between the apparent face of the country here and that of the plains of the Missouri only that these are not enlivened by the vast herds of buffaloe Elk &c which ornament the other.
Buffaloe lying along shore, which had been drowned by falling through the ice in winter and lodged on shore by the high water when the river broke up about the first of this month.
We went up Naked Creek to the head and had a plain Buffaloe Road most of the way.
I blazed several trees four ways on the outside of the low Grounds by a Buffaloe Road, and marked my Name on Several Beech Trees.
Walker's Journal, which notes that one "Buffaloe Road" which he followed afforded an "Ascent and Descent tollerably easie.
To the Eastward are many small Mountains, and a Buffaloe Road between them and the Ridge.
So a very powerful wild buffaloe was appointed to lie in wait, but he missed seeing Jhore when he led the calves to the water and bathed them, and cleaned and swept out their stall.
Matters went on thus for many days till at last the buffaloe cows said among themselves, "We must watch for, and catch whoever it is who keeps our calves so clean.
Jhore in his explorations found a number of buffaloe calves left behind by their mothers who had gone to graze.
The oldbuffaloe cow replied, "Yes, I saw him, but I will not tell you, for you will kill him.
The old buffaloe cow led them to the dunghill, and said, "He is in here.
Before thebuffaloe cows left for their grazing grounds in the mornings the calves said, "You stay away till so late at night that, we are almost famished before you return.
In this way a bond of friendship was established between him and the wild buffaloe calves.
Long after this, he one day took his calves to the river and after he had bathed them he said to the buffaloe calves, "Wait for me till I also bathe.
In walking along the shore we counted fifty-two herds of buffaloe and three of elk, at a single view.
We followed him, and found a very large lodge, made of twenty buffaloe skins, surrounded by eighteen or twenty lodges, nearly equal in size.
I saw one so arranged as to bear a resemblance to the human figure, the hip bone of the buffaloerepresented the head, the sockets of the thigh bones looked like eyes.
The women are chiefly employed in dressing buffaloe skins: they seem perfectly well disposed, but are addicted to stealing any thing which they can take without being observed.
The women were employed in dressing buffaloe skins, for clothing for themselves and for covering their lodges.
This nation is now hunting in the plains for the buffaloewhich our hunters have seen for the first time.
Their buffaloe robes and other skins they chiefly procure on the Missouri, when they go over to hunt, as there are no buffaloe in this part of the country and very little other game.
With the large rib bones of the elk and buffaloe they shaved the hair off the skins they dressed, and even now, they say that they can clean a skin as well with a well prepared rib-bone as with a knife.
They can dress any skin, even that of the buffaloe, so that it becomes quite soft and supple, and a good buffaloe or bear skin blanket will serve them many years without wearing out.
After killing nine buffaloe and preparing that already dead, he had spent a cold disagreeable night on the snow, with no covering but a small blanket, sheltered by the hides of the buffaloe they had killed.
He found that the immense herds of buffaloe have entirely disappeared, and he thought had gone below the falls.
The shield is a circular piece of buffaloe hide about two feet four or five inches in diameter, ornamented with feathers, and a fringe round it of dressed leather, and adorned or deformed with paintings of strange figures.
Notwithstanding the high waves, two or three squaws rowed to us in little canoes made of a single buffaloe skin, stretched over a frame of boughs interwoven like a basket, and with the most perfect composure.
Being now strong in numbers, they venture to hunt buffaloe in the plains eastward of the mountains, near which they spend the winter, till the return of the salmon invites them to the Columbia.
Here we met a Mr. M'Cracken one of the northwest or Hudson Bay company, who arrived with another person about nine days ago to trade for horses and buffaloe robes.
We passed in the morning several islands, the largest of which is Buffaloe island, separated from the southern side by a small channel which receives the waters of Buffaloe creek.
The party all occupied in making the boat; they obtained a sufficient quantity of willow bark to line her, and over these were placed the elk skins, and when they failed we were obliged to use the buffaloe hide.
The robe is formed most commonly of the skins of antelope, bighorn, or deer, though when it can be procured, the buffaloehide is preferred.
Can you tell me, old trapper, who held the rifle that did the deed for the sheriff's deputy, that thought to rout the unlawful settlers who had gathered nigh the Buffaloe lick in old Kentucky?
Although as pre-eminent in the chase as in war, a deer or a buffaloe was never seen to enter whole into his lodge.
It ar' a fact that the child sees something more uncommon than a buffaloe or a prairie dog!
It would soon bake you a buffaloe whole, or for that matter powder his hoofs and horns into white ashes.
The man who denies that buffaloe beef is good, should scorn to eat it!
How well the Pawnee knew the philosophy of a buffaloe hunt!
Scarcely a week passed but I fired twenty, thirty, and sometimes upward of fifty shots upon buffaloe or moose but could never kill.
Buffaloe] The Bull, or Buffaloe is understood only by the conjurer, his voice being hoarse, and rough, his language quite foreign.
In war they use round targets of buffaloe hide, strengthened with some light bars of iron, having a wooden handle, and short broad-swords.
Father, I see you are looking on me; I am poor; I have nothing on me of the make of the whites; I have even turned my buffaloe robe to hide its tarnish.
We saw immense droves of elk, buffaloes, and white bears, which haunt thebuffaloe range to prey upon those noble animals.
He had killed a buffaloe bull, eaten a part of it, and buried the remainder.
On the 7th they passed several dog towns; fed uponbuffaloe flesh; and found no other material for fuel, but the dried manure of the animal.
We took from them all the beaver skins which they had taken from the slain French, and five of their mules, and added to our provisions their stock of dried buffaloe meat.
They are made of an elastic and flexible wood, backed with the sinews of a buffaloe or elk.
Nothing occurred worthy of mention, except that we saw a great number of {29} wolves, which had surrounded a small herd of buffaloe cows and calves, and killed and eaten several.
We were then treated with fat buffaloe meat, and after we had eaten, he gave us counsel in regard to our future course, particularly not to let our horses loose at night.
They were warmly clad with buffaloe robes, and they had muskets, which we knew they must have taken from the white people.
I made up my mind, that I would never attempt to catch another buffaloe calf alive, and also, that I would not tell my companions what a capsizing I had had, although my side did not feel any better for the butting it had received.
He at length got away from them, leaving them masters of the field, and having acquired no more laurels than I, from my combat with my buffaloe calf.
We continued the next day to make our way over the same wearying plain, without water or timber, having been obliged {24} to provide more of our horses with buffaloe skin moccasins.
I saw one of them shoot an arrow through a buffaloe bull, that had been driven close to our camp.
Just before we encamped, which was at four in the afternoon, we discovered a herd of buffaloe cows, the first we had seen, and gave notice on our arrival at the camp.
On the morning of the 4th, a party was sent out to kill some buffaloe bulls, and get their skins to make moccasins for our horses, which detained us until ten o'clock.
A daughter has driven her aged Indian father, lashed, in his buffaloe robe, on a sledge, to the Colony.
Very little buffaloe meat has been obtained from the plains, and our principal subsistence is from grain boiled into soup.
Go to that Chief; and in leaving me, be not angry, but let me kill buffaloe when I am hungry, and another bear when I meet with it, and then I will make another necklace of the claws.
The meat is much easier of digestion than English beef; and many pounds of it are often taken by the hungry traveller just before he wraps himself in his buffaloe robe for the night without the least inconvenience.
We smoked the calumet as a token of friendship; and a plentiful supply of buffaloetongues was prepared for supper.
Pemican is made by pounding the dried meat, and mixing it with boiled fat, and is then put into bags made of buffaloe skin, which weigh about eighty and a hundred pounds each.
They run the buffaloe with them in the summer, and fasten them to sledges which they drag over the snow when they travel in the winter; while the dogs carry burdens upon their backs, like packs upon the pack-horse.
It is a common custom with the Indians to paint hieroglyphic characters on dressed buffaloe skins or robes; and a variety of figures are drawn on many of those which they barter at the Company's Posts.
Their clothing consisted principally of a blanket, a buffaloe skin, and leggings, with a cap, which hung down their back, and was fastened to a belt round the waist.
The dried meat is prepared by cutting the flesh of the buffaloe thin, and hanging it on stages of wood to dry by the fire; and is generally tied in bundles of fifty or forty pounds weight.
We found here plenty ofBuffaloe sign and the Pawnacks come here to winter often on account of the Buffaloe we now find no buffaloe.
They generally make but one visit to the buffaloe country during the year, where they remain until they jerk as much meat as their females can lug home on their backs.
Of their Language and Original, Launces and Buffaloe Coats.
Buffaloe Shoal" was the first of what one might call Clark's "Menagerie Series" of rapids.
Clark had originally named these riffles "Buffaloe Shoal, from the circumstance of one of these animals being found in them.
Of the animals of this region, the buffaloe or bison ranks first in importance, inasmuch as it supplies multitudes of savages not only with the principal part of their necessary food, but also contributes to furnish them with warm clothing.
They are numerous, and with the buffaloe are the common occupants of the plains, from which they retire only in quest of water.
Printed for the Author, by Solomon Sala, at the Buffaloe Printing Office, 1823.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffaloe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
