Input:
I saw it first in
the ---- newspaper, where I believe it originated.

Output:
"

In these days of railroads and numberless hunting parties, there is not
the remotest possibility of there being anywhere in the United States a
herd of a hundred, or even fifty, buffaloes which has escaped
observation.


Input:
"

In these days of railroads and numberless hunting parties, there is not
the remotest possibility of there being anywhere in the United States a
herd of a hundred, or even fifty, buffaloes which has escaped
observation.

Output:
Of the eighty-five head still existing in a wild state it
may safely be predicted that not even one will remain alive five years
hence.


Input:
Of the eighty-five head still existing in a wild state it
may safely be predicted that not even one will remain alive five years
hence.

Output:
A buffalo is now so great a prize, and by the ignorant it is
considered so great an honor(!) to kill one, that extraordinary
exertions will be made to find and shoot down without mercy the "last
buffalo.


Input:
A buffalo is now so great a prize, and by the ignorant it is
considered so great an honor(!) to kill one, that extraordinary
exertions will be made to find and shoot down without mercy the "last
buffalo.

Output:
"

There is no possible chance for the race to be perpetuated in a wild
state, and in a few years more hardly a bone will remain above ground to
mark the existence of the must prolific mammalian species that ever
existed, so far as we know.


Input:
"

There is no possible chance for the race to be perpetuated in a wild
state, and in a few years more hardly a bone will remain above ground to
mark the existence of the must prolific mammalian species that ever
existed, so far as we know.

Output: VI.


Input: VI.

Output: EFFECTS OF THE EXTERMINATION.


Input: EFFECTS OF THE EXTERMINATION.

Output:
The buffalo supplied the Indian with food, clothing, shelter, bedding,
saddles, ropes, shields, and innumerable smaller articles of use and
ornament In the United States a paternal government takes the place of
the buffalo in supplying all these wants of the red man, and it costs
several millions of dollars annually to accomplish the task.


Input:
The buffalo supplied the Indian with food, clothing, shelter, bedding,
saddles, ropes, shields, and innumerable smaller articles of use and
ornament In the United States a paternal government takes the place of
the buffalo in supplying all these wants of the red man, and it costs
several millions of dollars annually to accomplish the task.

Output:
The following are the tribes which depended very largely--some almost
wholly--upon the buffalo for the necessities, and many of the luxuries,
of their savage life until the Government began to support them:

+------------------------------------+
|Sioux                        |30,561|
|Crow                         | 3,226|
|Piegan, Blood, and Blackfeet | 2,026|
|Cheyenne                     | 3,477|
|Gros Ventres                 |   856|
|Arickaree                    |   517|
|Mandan                       |   283|
|Bannack and Shoshone         | 2,001|
|Nez Percé                    | 1,460|
|Assinniboine                 | 1,688|
|Kiowas and Comanches         | 2,756|
|Arapahoes                    | 1,217|
|Apache                       |   332|
|Ute                          |   978|
|Omaha                        | 1,160|
|Pawnee                       |   998|
|Winnebago                    | 1,222|
|                             |------|
|    Total                    |54,758|
+------------------------------------+

This enumeration (from the census of 1886) leaves entirely out of
consideration many thousands of Indians living in the Indian Territory
and other portions of the Southwest, who drew an annual supply of meat
and robes from the chase of the buffalo, notwithstanding the fact that
their chief dependence was upon agriculture.


Input:
The following are the tribes which depended very largely--some almost
wholly--upon the buffalo for the necessities, and many of the luxuries,
of their savage life until the Government began to support them:

+------------------------------------+
|Sioux                        |30,561|
|Crow                         | 3,226|
|Piegan, Blood, and Blackfeet | 2,026|
|Cheyenne                     | 3,477|
|Gros Ventres                 |   856|
|Arickaree                    |   517|
|Mandan                       |   283|
|Bannack and Shoshone         | 2,001|
|Nez Percé                    | 1,460|
|Assinniboine                 | 1,688|
|Kiowas and Comanches         | 2,756|
|Arapahoes                    | 1,217|
|Apache                       |   332|
|Ute                          |   978|
|Omaha                        | 1,160|
|Pawnee                       |   998|
|Winnebago                    | 1,222|
|                             |------|
|    Total                    |54,758|
+------------------------------------+

This enumeration (from the census of 1886) leaves entirely out of
consideration many thousands of Indians living in the Indian Territory
and other portions of the Southwest, who drew an annual supply of meat
and robes from the chase of the buffalo, notwithstanding the fact that
their chief dependence was upon agriculture.

Output:
The Indians of what was once the buffalo country are not starving and
freezing, for the reason that the United States Government supplies them
regularly with beef and blankets in lieu of buffalo.


Input:
The Indians of what was once the buffalo country are not starving and
freezing, for the reason that the United States Government supplies them
regularly with beef and blankets in lieu of buffalo.

Output:
Does any one
imagine that the Government could not have regulated the killing of
buffaloes, and thus maintained the supply, for far less money than it
now costs to feed and clothe those 54,758 Indians!


Input:
Does any one
imagine that the Government could not have regulated the killing of
buffaloes, and thus maintained the supply, for far less money than it
now costs to feed and clothe those 54,758 Indians!

Output: How is it with the Indians of the British Possessions to-day?


Input: How is it with the Indians of the British Possessions to-day?

Output:
Prof. John Maconn writes as follows in his "Manitoba and the Great
Northwest," page 342:


Input:
Prof. John Maconn writes as follows in his "Manitoba and the Great
Northwest," page 342:

Output: "During the last three years [prior to 1883]


Input: "During the last three years [prior to 1883]

Output:
the great herds have been
kept south of our boundary, and, as the result of this, our Indians have
been on the verge of starvation.


Input:
the great herds have been
kept south of our boundary, and, as the result of this, our Indians have
been on the verge of starvation.

Output:
When the hills were covered with
countless thousands [of buffaloes] in 1877, the Blackfeet were dying of
starvation in 1879.


Input:
When the hills were covered with
countless thousands [of buffaloes] in 1877, the Blackfeet were dying of
starvation in 1879.

Output:
"

During the winter of 1886-'87, destitution and actual starvation
prevailed to an alarming extent among certain tribes of Indians in the
Northwest Territory who once lived bountifully on the buffalo.


Input:
"

During the winter of 1886-'87, destitution and actual starvation
prevailed to an alarming extent among certain tribes of Indians in the
Northwest Territory who once lived bountifully on the buffalo.

Output:
A
terrible tale of suffering in the Athabasca and Peace River country has
recently (1888) come to the minister of the interior of the Canadian
government, in the form of a petition signed by the bishop of that
diocese, six clergymen and missionaries, and several justices of the
peace.


Input:
A
terrible tale of suffering in the Athabasca and Peace River country has
recently (1888) come to the minister of the interior of the Canadian
government, in the form of a petition signed by the bishop of that
diocese, six clergymen and missionaries, and several justices of the
peace.

Output:
It sets forth that "owing to the destruction of game, the
Indians, both last winter and last summer, have been in a state of
starvation.


Input:
It sets forth that "owing to the destruction of game, the
Indians, both last winter and last summer, have been in a state of
starvation.

Output:
They are now in a complete state of destitution, and are
utterly unable to provide themselves with clothing, shelter, ammunition,
or food for the coming winter."


Input:
They are now in a complete state of destitution, and are
utterly unable to provide themselves with clothing, shelter, ammunition,
or food for the coming winter."

Output:
The petition declares that on account of
starvation, and consequent cannibalism, a party of twenty-nine Cree
Indians was reduced to three in the winter of 1886.[77] Of the Fort
Chippewyan Indians, between twenty and thirty starved to death last
winter, and the death of many more was hastened by want of food and by
famine diseases.


Input:
The petition declares that on account of
starvation, and consequent cannibalism, a party of twenty-nine Cree
Indians was reduced to three in the winter of 1886.[77] Of the Fort
Chippewyan Indians, between twenty and thirty starved to death last
winter, and the death of many more was hastened by want of food and by
famine diseases.

Output:
Many other Indians--Crees, Beavers, and Chippewyans--at
almost all points where there are missions or trading posts, would
certainly have starved to death but for the help given them by the
traders and missionaries at those places.


Input:
Many other Indians--Crees, Beavers, and Chippewyans--at
almost all points where there are missions or trading posts, would
certainly have starved to death but for the help given them by the
traders and missionaries at those places.

Output:
It is now declared by the
signers of the memorial that scores of families, having lost their heads
by starvation, are now perfectly helpless, and during the coming winter
must either starve to death or eat one another unless help comes.


Input:
It is now declared by the
signers of the memorial that scores of families, having lost their heads
by starvation, are now perfectly helpless, and during the coming winter
must either starve to death or eat one another unless help comes.

Output:
Heart-rending stories of suffering and cannibalism continue to come in
from what was once the buffalo plains.


Input:
Heart-rending stories of suffering and cannibalism continue to come in
from what was once the buffalo plains.

Output:
[Note 77: It was the Cree Indians who used to practice impounding
buffaloes, slaughtering a penful of two hundred head at a time with most
fiendish glee, and leaving all but the very choicest of the meat to
putrefy.]


Input:
[Note 77: It was the Cree Indians who used to practice impounding
buffaloes, slaughtering a penful of two hundred head at a time with most
fiendish glee, and leaving all but the very choicest of the meat to
putrefy.]

Output:
If ever thoughtless people were punished for their reckless
improvidence, the Indians and half-breeds of the Northwest Territory are
now paying the penalty for the wasteful slaughter of the buffalo a few
short years ago.


Input:
If ever thoughtless people were punished for their reckless
improvidence, the Indians and half-breeds of the Northwest Territory are
now paying the penalty for the wasteful slaughter of the buffalo a few
short years ago.

Output:
The buffalo is his own avenger, to an extent his
remorseless slayers little dreamed he ever could be.


Input:
The buffalo is his own avenger, to an extent his
remorseless slayers little dreamed he ever could be.

Output: VII.


Input: VII.

Output: PRESERVATION OF THE SPECIES FROM ABSOLUTE EXTINCTION.


Input: PRESERVATION OF THE SPECIES FROM ABSOLUTE EXTINCTION.

Output:
There is reason to fear that unless the United States Government takes
the matter in hand and makes a special effort to prevent it, the
pure-blood bison will be lost irretrievably through mixture with
domestic breeds and through in-and-in breeding.


Input:
There is reason to fear that unless the United States Government takes
the matter in hand and makes a special effort to prevent it, the
pure-blood bison will be lost irretrievably through mixture with
domestic breeds and through in-and-in breeding.

Output:
The fate of the Yellowstone Park herd is, to say the least, highly
uncertain.


Input:
The fate of the Yellowstone Park herd is, to say the least, highly
uncertain.

Output:
A distinguished Senator, who is deeply interested in
legislation for the protection of the National Park reservation, has
declared that the pressure from railway corporations, which are seeking
a foot-hold in the park, has become so great and so aggressive that he
fears the park will "eventually be broken up."


Input:
A distinguished Senator, who is deeply interested in
legislation for the protection of the National Park reservation, has
declared that the pressure from railway corporations, which are seeking
a foot-hold in the park, has become so great and so aggressive that he
fears the park will "eventually be broken up."

Output:
In any such event, the
destruction of the herd of park buffaloes would be one of the very first
results.


Input:
In any such event, the
destruction of the herd of park buffaloes would be one of the very first
results.

Output:
If the park is properly maintained, however, it is to be hoped
that the buffaloes now in it will remain there and increase
indefinitely.


Input:
If the park is properly maintained, however, it is to be hoped
that the buffaloes now in it will remain there and increase
indefinitely.

Output:
As yet there are only two captive buffaloes in the possession of the
Government, viz, those in the Department of Living Animals of the
National Museum, presented by Hon.


Input:
As yet there are only two captive buffaloes in the possession of the
Government, viz, those in the Department of Living Animals of the
National Museum, presented by Hon.

Output: E. G. Blackford, of New York.


Input: E. G. Blackford, of New York.

Output:
The
buffaloes now in the Zoological Gardens of the country are but few in
number, and unless special pains be taken to prevent it, by means of
judicious exchanges, from time to time, these will rapidly deteriorate
in size, and within a comparatively short time run out entirely, through
continued in-and-in breeding.


Input:
The
buffaloes now in the Zoological Gardens of the country are but few in
number, and unless special pains be taken to prevent it, by means of
judicious exchanges, from time to time, these will rapidly deteriorate
in size, and within a comparatively short time run out entirely, through
continued in-and-in breeding.

Output:
It is said that even the wild aurochs in
the forests of Lithuania are decreasing in size and, in number from this
cause.


Input:
It is said that even the wild aurochs in
the forests of Lithuania are decreasing in size and, in number from this
cause.

Output:
With private owners of captive buffaloes, the temptations to produce
cross-breeds will be so great that it is more than likely the breeding
of pure-blood buffaloes will be neglected.


Input:
With private owners of captive buffaloes, the temptations to produce
cross-breeds will be so great that it is more than likely the breeding
of pure-blood buffaloes will be neglected.

Output:
Indeed, unless some stockman
like Mr. C. J. Jones takes particular pains to protect his full blood
buffaloes, and keep the breed absolutely pure, in twenty years there
will not be a pure-blood animal of that species on any stock farm in
this country.


Input:
Indeed, unless some stockman
like Mr. C. J. Jones takes particular pains to protect his full blood
buffaloes, and keep the breed absolutely pure, in twenty years there
will not be a pure-blood animal of that species on any stock farm in
this country.

Output:
Under existing conditions, the constant tendency of the
numerous domestic forms is to absorb and utterly obliterate the few wild
ones.


Input:
Under existing conditions, the constant tendency of the
numerous domestic forms is to absorb and utterly obliterate the few wild
ones.

Output:
If we may judge from the examples set as by European governments, it is
clearly the duty of our Government to act in this matter, and act
promptly, with a degree of liberality and promptness which can not be
otherwise than highly gratifying to every American citizen and every
friend of science throughout the world.


Input:
If we may judge from the examples set as by European governments, it is
clearly the duty of our Government to act in this matter, and act
promptly, with a degree of liberality and promptness which can not be
otherwise than highly gratifying to every American citizen and every
friend of science throughout the world.

Output:
The Fiftieth Congress, at its
last session, responded to the call made upon it, and voted $200,000 for
the establishment of a National Zoological Park in the District of
Columbia on a grand scale.


Input:
The Fiftieth Congress, at its
last session, responded to the call made upon it, and voted $200,000 for
the establishment of a National Zoological Park in the District of
Columbia on a grand scale.

Output:
One of the leading purposes it is destined to
serve is the preservation and breeding in comfortable, and so far as
space is concerned, luxurious captivity of a number of fine specimens of
every species of American quadruped now threatened with
extermination.[78]


Input:
One of the leading purposes it is destined to
serve is the preservation and breeding in comfortable, and so far as
space is concerned, luxurious captivity of a number of fine specimens of
every species of American quadruped now threatened with
extermination.[78]

Output:
[Note 78: It is indeed an unbounded satisfaction to be able to now
record the fact that this important task, in which every American
citizen has a personal interest, is actually to be undertaken.


Input:
[Note 78: It is indeed an unbounded satisfaction to be able to now
record the fact that this important task, in which every American
citizen has a personal interest, is actually to be undertaken.

Output:
Last year
we could only way it ought to be undertaken.


Input:
Last year
we could only way it ought to be undertaken.

Output:
In its accomplishment, the
Government expects the co-operation of private individuals all over the
country in the form of gifts of desirable living animals, for no
government could afford to purchase all the animals necessary for a
great Zoological Garden, provide for their wants in a liberal way, and
yet give the public free access to the collection, as is to be given to
the National Zoological Park.]


Input:
In its accomplishment, the
Government expects the co-operation of private individuals all over the
country in the form of gifts of desirable living animals, for no
government could afford to purchase all the animals necessary for a
great Zoological Garden, provide for their wants in a liberal way, and
yet give the public free access to the collection, as is to be given to
the National Zoological Park.]

Output:
At least eight or ten buffaloes of pure breed should be secured very
soon by the Zoological Park Commission, by gift if possible, and cared
for with special reference to keeping the breed absolutely pure, and


Input:
At least eight or ten buffaloes of pure breed should be secured very
soon by the Zoological Park Commission, by gift if possible, and cared
for with special reference to keeping the breed absolutely pure, and

Output:
_keeping the herd from deteriorating and dying out through in-and-in
breeding_.


Input:
_keeping the herd from deteriorating and dying out through in-and-in
breeding_.

Output:
The total expense would be trifling in comparison with the importance of
the end to be gained, and in that way we might, in a small measure,
atone for our neglect of the means which would have protected the great
herds from extinction.


Input:
The total expense would be trifling in comparison with the importance of
the end to be gained, and in that way we might, in a small measure,
atone for our neglect of the means which would have protected the great
herds from extinction.

Output:
In this way, by proper management, it will be not
only possible but easy to preserve fine living representatives of this
important species for centuries to come.


Input:
In this way, by proper management, it will be not
only possible but easy to preserve fine living representatives of this
important species for centuries to come.

Output: The result of continuing in-breeding is certain extinction.


Input: The result of continuing in-breeding is certain extinction.

Output:
Its progress
may be so slow as to make no impression upon the mind of a herd-owner,
but the end is only a question of time.


Input:
Its progress
may be so slow as to make no impression upon the mind of a herd-owner,
but the end is only a question of time.

Output:
The fate of a majority of the
herds of British wild cattle (_Bos urus_) warn us what to expect with
the American bison under similar circumstances.


Input:
The fate of a majority of the
herds of British wild cattle (_Bos urus_) warn us what to expect with
the American bison under similar circumstances.

Output:
Of the fourteen herds of
wild cattle which were in existence in England and Scotland during the
early part of the present century, direct descendants of the wild herds
found in Great Britain, nine have become totally extinct through in
breeding.


Input:
Of the fourteen herds of
wild cattle which were in existence in England and Scotland during the
early part of the present century, direct descendants of the wild herds
found in Great Britain, nine have become totally extinct through in
breeding.

Output:
The five herds remaining are those at Somerford Park, Blickling Hall,
Woodbastwick, Chartley, and Chillingham.


Input:
The five herds remaining are those at Somerford Park, Blickling Hall,
Woodbastwick, Chartley, and Chillingham.

Output: PART III.--THE


Input: PART III.--THE

Output: SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITION FOR MUSEUM SPECIMENS.


Input: SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITION FOR MUSEUM SPECIMENS.

Output: I. THE EXPLORATION.


Input: I. THE EXPLORATION.

Output:
During the first three months of the year 1886 it was ascertained by the
writer, then chief taxidermist of the National Museum, that the
extermination of the American bison had made most alarming progress.


Input:
During the first three months of the year 1886 it was ascertained by the
writer, then chief taxidermist of the National Museum, that the
extermination of the American bison had made most alarming progress.

Output:
By
extensive correspondence it was learned that the destruction of all the
large herds, both North and South, was already an accomplished fact.


Input:
By
extensive correspondence it was learned that the destruction of all the
large herds, both North and South, was already an accomplished fact.

Output:
While it was generally supposed that at least a few thousand individuals
still inhabited the more remote and inaccessible regions of what once
constituted the great northern buffalo range, it was found that the
actual number remaining in the whole United States was probably less
than three hundred.


Input:
While it was generally supposed that at least a few thousand individuals
still inhabited the more remote and inaccessible regions of what once
constituted the great northern buffalo range, it was found that the
actual number remaining in the whole United States was probably less
than three hundred.

Output:
By some authorities who were consulted it was considered an
impossibility to procure a large series of specimens anywhere in this
country, while others asserted positively that there were no wild
buffaloes south of the British possessions save those in the Yellowstone
National Park.


Input:
By some authorities who were consulted it was considered an
impossibility to procure a large series of specimens anywhere in this
country, while others asserted positively that there were no wild
buffaloes south of the British possessions save those in the Yellowstone
National Park.

Output:
Canadian authorities asserted with equal positiveness
that none remained in their territory.


Input:
Canadian authorities asserted with equal positiveness
that none remained in their territory.

Output:
A careful inventory of the specimens in the collection of the National
Museum revealed the fact that, with the exception of one mounted female
skin, another unmounted, and one mounted skeleton of a male buffalo, the
Museum was actually without presentable specimens of this most important
and interesting mammal.


Input:
A careful inventory of the specimens in the collection of the National
Museum revealed the fact that, with the exception of one mounted female
skin, another unmounted, and one mounted skeleton of a male buffalo, the
Museum was actually without presentable specimens of this most important
and interesting mammal.

Output:
Besides those mentioned above, the collection contained only two old,
badly mounted, and dilapidated skins, (one of which had been taken in
summer, and therefore was not representative), an incomplete skeleton,
some fragmentary skulls of no value, and two mounted heads.


Input:
Besides those mentioned above, the collection contained only two old,
badly mounted, and dilapidated skins, (one of which had been taken in
summer, and therefore was not representative), an incomplete skeleton,
some fragmentary skulls of no value, and two mounted heads.

Output:
Thus it
appeared that the Museum was unable to show a series of specimens, good
or bad, or even one presentable male of good size.


Input:
Thus it
appeared that the Museum was unable to show a series of specimens, good
or bad, or even one presentable male of good size.

Output:
In view of this alarming state of affairs, coupled with the already
declared extinction of _Bison americanus_, the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, Prof. Spencer F. Baird, determined to send a
party into the field at once to find wild buffalo, if any were still
living, and in case any were found to collect a number of specimens.


Input:
In view of this alarming state of affairs, coupled with the already
declared extinction of _Bison americanus_, the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, Prof. Spencer F. Baird, determined to send a
party into the field at once to find wild buffalo, if any were still
living, and in case any were found to collect a number of specimens.

Output:
Since it seemed highly uncertain whether any other institution, or any
private individual, would have the opportunity to collect a large supply
of specimens before it became too late, it was decided by the Secretary
that the Smithsonian Institution should undertake the task of providing
for the future as liberally as possible.


Input:
Since it seemed highly uncertain whether any other institution, or any
private individual, would have the opportunity to collect a large supply
of specimens before it became too late, it was decided by the Secretary
that the Smithsonian Institution should undertake the task of providing
for the future as liberally as possible.

Output:
For the benefit of the smaller
scientific museums of the country, and for others which will come into
existence during the next half century, it was resolved to collect at
all hazards, in case buffalo could be found, between eighty and one
hundred specimens of various kinds, of which from twenty to thirty
should be skins, an equal number should be complete skeletons, and of
skulls at least fifty.


Input:
For the benefit of the smaller
scientific museums of the country, and for others which will come into
existence during the next half century, it was resolved to collect at
all hazards, in case buffalo could be found, between eighty and one
hundred specimens of various kinds, of which from twenty to thirty
should be skins, an equal number should be complete skeletons, and of
skulls at least fifty.

Output:
In view of the great scarcity of buffalo and the general belief that it
might be a work of some months to find any specimens, even if it were
possible to find any at all, it was determined not to risk the success
of the undertaking by delaying it until the regular autumn hunting
season, but to send a party into the field at once to prosecute a
search.


Input:
In view of the great scarcity of buffalo and the general belief that it
might be a work of some months to find any specimens, even if it were
possible to find any at all, it was determined not to risk the success
of the undertaking by delaying it until the regular autumn hunting
season, but to send a party into the field at once to prosecute a
search.

Output:
It was resolved to discover at all hazards the whereabouts of
any buffalo that might still remain in this country in a wild state,
and, if possible, to reach them before the shedding of their winter
pelage.


Input:
It was resolved to discover at all hazards the whereabouts of
any buffalo that might still remain in this country in a wild state,
and, if possible, to reach them before the shedding of their winter
pelage.

Output:
It very soon became apparent, however, that the latter would
prove an utter impossibility.


Input:
It very soon became apparent, however, that the latter would
prove an utter impossibility.

Output:
Late in the month of April a letter was received from Dr. J. C. Merrill,
United States Army, dated at Huntley, Montana, giving information of
reports that buffalo were still to be found in three localities in the
Northwest, viz: on the headwaters of the Powder River, Wyoming; in
Judith Basin, Montana; and on Big Dry Creek, also in Montana.


Input:
Late in the month of April a letter was received from Dr. J. C. Merrill,
United States Army, dated at Huntley, Montana, giving information of
reports that buffalo were still to be found in three localities in the
Northwest, viz: on the headwaters of the Powder River, Wyoming; in
Judith Basin, Montana; and on Big Dry Creek, also in Montana.

Output:
The
reports in regard to the first two localities proved to be erroneous.


Input:
The
reports in regard to the first two localities proved to be erroneous.

Output:
It
was ascertained to a reasonable certainty that there still existed in
southwestern Dakota a small band of six or eight wild buffaloes, while
from the Pan-handle of Texas there came reports of the existence there,
in small scattered hands, of about two hundred head.


Input:
It
was ascertained to a reasonable certainty that there still existed in
southwestern Dakota a small band of six or eight wild buffaloes, while
from the Pan-handle of Texas there came reports of the existence there,
in small scattered hands, of about two hundred head.

Output:
The buffalo known
to be in Dakota were far too few in number to justify a long and
expensive search, while those in Texas, on the Canadian River, were too
difficult to reach to make it advisable to hunt them save as a last
resort.


Input:
The buffalo known
to be in Dakota were far too few in number to justify a long and
expensive search, while those in Texas, on the Canadian River, were too
difficult to reach to make it advisable to hunt them save as a last
resort.

Output:
It was therefore decided to investigate the localities named in
the Northwest.


Input:
It was therefore decided to investigate the localities named in
the Northwest.

Output:
Through the courtesy of the Secretary of War, an order was sent to the
officer commanding the Department of Dakota, requesting him to furnish
the party, through the officers in command at Forts Keogh, Maginnis, and
McKinney, such field transportation, escort, and camp equipage as might
be necessary, and also to sell to the party such commissary stores as
might be required, at cost price, plus 10 per cent.


Input:
Through the courtesy of the Secretary of War, an order was sent to the
officer commanding the Department of Dakota, requesting him to furnish
the party, through the officers in command at Forts Keogh, Maginnis, and
McKinney, such field transportation, escort, and camp equipage as might
be necessary, and also to sell to the party such commissary stores as
might be required, at cost price, plus 10 per cent.

Output:
The Secretary of the
Interior also favored the party with an order, directing all Indian
agents, scouts, and others in the service of the Department to render
assistance as far as possible when called upon.


Input:
The Secretary of the
Interior also favored the party with an order, directing all Indian
agents, scouts, and others in the service of the Department to render
assistance as far as possible when called upon.

Output:
In view of the public interest attaching to the results of the
expedition, the railway transportation of the party to and from Montana
was furnished entirely without cost to the Smithsonian Institution.


Input:
In view of the public interest attaching to the results of the
expedition, the railway transportation of the party to and from Montana
was furnished entirely without cost to the Smithsonian Institution.

Output:
For
these valuable courtesies we gratefully acknowledge our obligations to
Mr. Frank Thomson, of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Mr. Roswell Miller, of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; and Mr. Robert Harris, of the
Northern Pacific.


Input:
For
these valuable courtesies we gratefully acknowledge our obligations to
Mr. Frank Thomson, of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Mr. Roswell Miller, of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; and Mr. Robert Harris, of the
Northern Pacific.

Output:
Under orders from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the
writer left Washington on May 6, accompanied by A. H. Forney, assistant
in the department of taxidermy, and George H. Hedley, of Medina, New
York.


Input:
Under orders from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the
writer left Washington on May 6, accompanied by A. H. Forney, assistant
in the department of taxidermy, and George H. Hedley, of Medina, New
York.

Output:
It had been decided that Miles City, Montana, might properly be
taken as the first objective point, and that town was reached on May 9.


Input:
It had been decided that Miles City, Montana, might properly be
taken as the first objective point, and that town was reached on May 9.

Output:
Diligent inquiry in Miles City and at Fort Keogh, 2 miles distant,
revealed the fact that no one knew of the presence of any wild buffalo
anywhere in the Northwest, save within the protected limits of the
Yellowstone Park.


Input:
Diligent inquiry in Miles City and at Fort Keogh, 2 miles distant,
revealed the fact that no one knew of the presence of any wild buffalo
anywhere in the Northwest, save within the protected limits of the
Yellowstone Park.

Output:
All inquiries elicited the same reply: "There are no
buffalo any more, and you can't get any anywhere."


Input:
All inquiries elicited the same reply: "There are no
buffalo any more, and you can't get any anywhere."

Output:
Many persons who were
considered good authority declared most positively that there was not a
live buffalo in the vicinity of Big Dry Creek, nor anywhere between the
Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers.


Input:
Many persons who were
considered good authority declared most positively that there was not a
live buffalo in the vicinity of Big Dry Creek, nor anywhere between the
Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers.

Output:
An army officer from Fort Maginnis
testified to the total absence of buffalo in the Judith Basin, and
ranchmen from Wyoming asserted that none remained in the Powder River
country.


Input:
An army officer from Fort Maginnis
testified to the total absence of buffalo in the Judith Basin, and
ranchmen from Wyoming asserted that none remained in the Powder River
country.

Output:
Just at this time it was again reported to us, and most opportunely
confirmed by Mr. Henry E. Phillips, owner of the =LU=-bar ranch on
Little Dry Creek, that there still remained a chance to find a few
buffalo in the country lying south of the Big Dry.


Input:
Just at this time it was again reported to us, and most opportunely
confirmed by Mr. Henry E. Phillips, owner of the =LU=-bar ranch on
Little Dry Creek, that there still remained a chance to find a few
buffalo in the country lying south of the Big Dry.

Output:
On the other hand,
other persons who seemed to be fully informed regarding that very region
and the animal life it contained, assured us that not a single buffalo
remained there, and that a search in that direction would prove
fruitless.


Input:
On the other hand,
other persons who seemed to be fully informed regarding that very region
and the animal life it contained, assured us that not a single buffalo
remained there, and that a search in that direction would prove
fruitless.

Output:
But the balance of evidence, however, seemed to lie in favor
of the Big Dry country, and we resolved to hunt through it with all
possible dispatch.


Input:
But the balance of evidence, however, seemed to lie in favor
of the Big Dry country, and we resolved to hunt through it with all
possible dispatch.

Output:
On the afternoon of May 13 we crossed the Yellowstone and started
northwest up the trail which leads along Sunday Creek.


Input:
On the afternoon of May 13 we crossed the Yellowstone and started
northwest up the trail which leads along Sunday Creek.

Output:
Our entire party
consisted of the two assistants already mentioned, a non-commissioned
officer, Sergeant Garone, and four men from the Fifth Infantry acting as
escort; Private Jones, also from the Fifth Infantry, detailed to act as
our cook, and a teamster.


Input:
Our entire party
consisted of the two assistants already mentioned, a non-commissioned
officer, Sergeant Garone, and four men from the Fifth Infantry acting as
escort; Private Jones, also from the Fifth Infantry, detailed to act as
our cook, and a teamster.

Output:
Our conveyance consisted of a six-mule team,
which, like the escort, was ordered out for twenty days only, and
provided accordingly.


Input:
Our conveyance consisted of a six-mule team,
which, like the escort, was ordered out for twenty days only, and
provided accordingly.

Output:
Before leaving Miles City we purchased two
saddle-horses for use in hunting, the equipments for which were
furnished by the ordnance department at Fort Keogh.


Input:
Before leaving Miles City we purchased two
saddle-horses for use in hunting, the equipments for which were
furnished by the ordnance department at Fort Keogh.

Output:
During the first two days' travel through the bad lands north of the
Yellowstone no mammals were seen save prairie-dogs and rabbits.


Input:
During the first two days' travel through the bad lands north of the
Yellowstone no mammals were seen save prairie-dogs and rabbits.

Output:
On the
third day a few antelope were seen, but none killed.


Input:
On the
third day a few antelope were seen, but none killed.

Output:
It is to be borne
in mind that this entire region is absolutely treeless everywhere save
along the margins of the largest streams.


Input:
It is to be borne
in mind that this entire region is absolutely treeless everywhere save
along the margins of the largest streams.

Output:
Bushes are also entirely
absent, with the exception of sage-brush, and even that does not occur
to any extent on the divides.


Input:
Bushes are also entirely
absent, with the exception of sage-brush, and even that does not occur
to any extent on the divides.

Output: On the third day two young buck antelopes were shot at the Red Buttes.


Input: On the third day two young buck antelopes were shot at the Red Buttes.

Output:
One had already commenced to shed his hair, but the other had not quite
reached that point.


Input:
One had already commenced to shed his hair, but the other had not quite
reached that point.

Output:
We prepared the skin of the first specimen and the
skeleton of the other.


Input:
We prepared the skin of the first specimen and the
skeleton of the other.

Output:
This was the only good antelope skin we obtained
in the spring, those of all the other specimens taken being quite
worthless on account of the looseness of the hair.


Input:
This was the only good antelope skin we obtained
in the spring, those of all the other specimens taken being quite
worthless on account of the looseness of the hair.

Output:
During the latter
part of May, and from that time on until the long winter hair is
completely shed, it falls off in handfuls at the slightest pressure,
leaving the skin clad only with a thin growth of new, mouse-colored hair
an eighth of an inch long.


Input:
During the latter
part of May, and from that time on until the long winter hair is
completely shed, it falls off in handfuls at the slightest pressure,
leaving the skin clad only with a thin growth of new, mouse-colored hair
an eighth of an inch long.

Output:
After reaching Little Dry Creek and hunting through the country on the
west side of it nearly to its confluence with the Big Dry we turned
southwest, and finally went into permanent camp on Phillips Creek, 8
miles above the =LU=-bar ranch and 4 miles from the Little Dry.


Input:
After reaching Little Dry Creek and hunting through the country on the
west side of it nearly to its confluence with the Big Dry we turned
southwest, and finally went into permanent camp on Phillips Creek, 8
miles above the =LU=-bar ranch and 4 miles from the Little Dry.

Output:
At that
point we were about 80 miles from Miles City.


Input:
At that
point we were about 80 miles from Miles City.

Output:
From information furnished us by Mr. Phillips and the cowboys in his
employ, we were assured that about thirty-five head of buffalo ranged in
the bad lands between Phillips Creek and the Musselshell River and south
of the Big Dry.


Input:
From information furnished us by Mr. Phillips and the cowboys in his
employ, we were assured that about thirty-five head of buffalo ranged in
the bad lands between Phillips Creek and the Musselshell River and south
of the Big Dry.

Output:
This tract of country was about 40 miles long from east
to west by 25 miles wide, and therefore of about 1,000 square miles in
area.


Input:
This tract of country was about 40 miles long from east
to west by 25 miles wide, and therefore of about 1,000 square miles in
area.

Output:
Excepting two temporary cowboy camps it was totally uninhabited by
man, treeless, without any running streams, save in winter and spring,
and was mostly very hilly and broken.


Input:
Excepting two temporary cowboy camps it was totally uninhabited by
man, treeless, without any running streams, save in winter and spring,
and was mostly very hilly and broken.

Output:
In this desolate and inhospitable country the thirty-five buffaloes
alluded to had been seen, first on Sand Creek, then at the head of the
Big Porcupine, again near the Musselshell, and latest near the head of
the Little Dry.


Input:
In this desolate and inhospitable country the thirty-five buffaloes
alluded to had been seen, first on Sand Creek, then at the head of the
Big Porcupine, again near the Musselshell, and latest near the head of
the Little Dry.

Output:
As these points were all from 15 to 30 miles distant
from each other, the difficulty of finding such a small herd becomes
apparent.


Input:
As these points were all from 15 to 30 miles distant
from each other, the difficulty of finding such a small herd becomes
apparent.

Output:
Although Phillips Creek was really the eastern boundary of the buffalo
country, it was impossible for a six-mule wagon to proceed beyond it, at
least at that point.


Input:
Although Phillips Creek was really the eastern boundary of the buffalo
country, it was impossible for a six-mule wagon to proceed beyond it, at
least at that point.

Output:
Having established a permanent camp, the Government
wagon and its escort returned to Fort Keogh, and we proceeded to hunt
through the country between Sand Creek and the Little Dry.


Input:
Having established a permanent camp, the Government
wagon and its escort returned to Fort Keogh, and we proceeded to hunt
through the country between Sand Creek and the Little Dry.

Output:
The absence
of nearly all the cowboys on the spring round-up, which began May 20,
threatened to be a serious drawback to us, as we greatly needed the
services of a man who was acquainted with the country.


Input:
The absence
of nearly all the cowboys on the spring round-up, which began May 20,
threatened to be a serious drawback to us, as we greatly needed the
services of a man who was acquainted with the country.

Output:
We had with us as
a scout and guide a Cheyenne Indian, named Dog, but it soon became
apparent that he knew no more about the country than we did.


Input:
We had with us as
a scout and guide a Cheyenne Indian, named Dog, but it soon became
apparent that he knew no more about the country than we did.

Output:
Fortunately, however, we succeeded in occasionally securing the services
of a cowboy, which was of great advantage to us.


Input:
Fortunately, however, we succeeded in occasionally securing the services
of a cowboy, which was of great advantage to us.

Output:
It was our custom to ride over the country daily, each day making a
circuit through a new locality, and covering as much ground as it was
possible to ride over in a day.


Input:
It was our custom to ride over the country daily, each day making a
circuit through a new locality, and covering as much ground as it was
possible to ride over in a day.

Output:
It was also our custom to take trips of
from two to four days in length, during which we carried our blankets
and rations upon our horses and camped wherever night overtook us,
provided water could be found.


Input:
It was also our custom to take trips of
from two to four days in length, during which we carried our blankets
and rations upon our horses and camped wherever night overtook us,
provided water could be found.

Output:
Our first success consisted in the capture of a buffalo calf, which from
excessive running had become unable to keep up with its mother, and had
been left behind.


Input:
Our first success consisted in the capture of a buffalo calf, which from
excessive running had become unable to keep up with its mother, and had
been left behind.

Output:
The calf was caught alive without any difficulty, and
while two of the members of our party carried it to camp across a horse,
the other two made a vigorous effort to discover the band of adult
animals.


Input:
The calf was caught alive without any difficulty, and
while two of the members of our party carried it to camp across a horse,
the other two made a vigorous effort to discover the band of adult
animals.

Output:
The effort was unsuccessful, for, besides the calf, no other
buffaloes were seen.


Input:
The effort was unsuccessful, for, besides the calf, no other
buffaloes were seen.

Output:
Ten days after the above event two bull buffaloes were met with on the
Little Dry, 15 miles above the =LU=-bar ranch, one of which was
overtaken and killed, but the other got safely away.


Input:
Ten days after the above event two bull buffaloes were met with on the
Little Dry, 15 miles above the =LU=-bar ranch, one of which was
overtaken and killed, but the other got safely away.

Output:
The shedding of the
winter coat was in full progress.


Input:
The shedding of the
winter coat was in full progress.

Output:
On the head, neck, and shoulders the
old hair had been entirely replaced by the new, although the two coats
were so matted together that the old hair clung in tangled masses to the
other.


Input:
On the head, neck, and shoulders the
old hair had been entirely replaced by the new, although the two coats
were so matted together that the old hair clung in tangled masses to the
other.

Output:
The old hair was brown and weather-beaten, but the new, which was
from 3 to 6 inches long, had a peculiar bluish-gray appearance.


Input:
The old hair was brown and weather-beaten, but the new, which was
from 3 to 6 inches long, had a peculiar bluish-gray appearance.

Output:
On the
head the new hair was quite black, and contrasted oddly with the lighter
color.


Input:
On the
head the new hair was quite black, and contrasted oddly with the lighter
color.

Output:
On the body and hind quarters there were large patches of skin
which were perfectly bare, between which lay large patches of old,
woolly, brown hair.


Input:
On the body and hind quarters there were large patches of skin
which were perfectly bare, between which lay large patches of old,
woolly, brown hair.

Output:
This curious condition gave the animal a very
unkempt and "seedy" appearance, the effect of which was heightened by
the long, shaggy locks of old, weather beaten hair which clung to the
new coat of the neck and shoulders like tattered signals of distress,
ready to be blown away by the first gust of wind.


Input:
This curious condition gave the animal a very
unkempt and "seedy" appearance, the effect of which was heightened by
the long, shaggy locks of old, weather beaten hair which clung to the
new coat of the neck and shoulders like tattered signals of distress,
ready to be blown away by the first gust of wind.

Output: This specimen was a large one, measuring 5 feet 4 inches in height.


Input: This specimen was a large one, measuring 5 feet 4 inches in height.

Output:
Inasmuch as the skin was not in condition to mount, we took only the
skeleton, entire, and the skin of the head and neck.


Input:
Inasmuch as the skin was not in condition to mount, we took only the
skeleton, entire, and the skin of the head and neck.

Output:
The capture of the calf and the death of this bull proved conclusively
that there were buffaloes in that region, and also that they were
breeding in comparative security.


Input:
The capture of the calf and the death of this bull proved conclusively
that there were buffaloes in that region, and also that they were
breeding in comparative security.

Output:
The extent of the country they had to
range over made it reasonably certain that their number would not be
diminished to any serious extent by the cowboys on the spring round-up,
although it was absolutely certain that in a few months the members of
that band would all be killed.


Input:
The extent of the country they had to
range over made it reasonably certain that their number would not be
diminished to any serious extent by the cowboys on the spring round-up,
although it was absolutely certain that in a few months the members of
that band would all be killed.

Output:
The report of the existence of a herd of
thirty-five head was confirmed later by cowboys, who had actually seen
the animals, and killed two of them merely for sport, as usual.


Input:
The report of the existence of a herd of
thirty-five head was confirmed later by cowboys, who had actually seen
the animals, and killed two of them merely for sport, as usual.

Output:
They
saved a few pounds of hump meat, and all the rest became food for the
wolves and foxes.


Input:
They
saved a few pounds of hump meat, and all the rest became food for the
wolves and foxes.

Output:
It was therefore resolved to leave the buffaloes entirely unmolested
until autumn, and then, when the robes would be in the finest condition,
return for a hunt on a liberal scale.


Input:
It was therefore resolved to leave the buffaloes entirely unmolested
until autumn, and then, when the robes would be in the finest condition,
return for a hunt on a liberal scale.

Output:
Accordingly, it was decided to
return to Washington without delay, and a courier was dispatched with a
request for transportation to carry our party back to Fort Keogh.


Input:
Accordingly, it was decided to
return to Washington without delay, and a courier was dispatched with a
request for transportation to carry our party back to Fort Keogh.

Output:
While awaiting the arrival of the wagons, a cowboy in the employ of the
Phillips Land and Cattle Company killed a solitary bull buffalo about 15
miles west of our camp, near Sand Creek.


Input:
While awaiting the arrival of the wagons, a cowboy in the employ of the
Phillips Land and Cattle Company killed a solitary bull buffalo about 15
miles west of our camp, near Sand Creek.

Output:
This animal had completely shed
the hair on his body and hind quarters.


Input:
This animal had completely shed
the hair on his body and hind quarters.

Output:
In addition to the preservation
of his entire skeleton, we prepared the skin also, as an example of the
condition of the buffalo immediately after shedding.


Input:
In addition to the preservation
of his entire skeleton, we prepared the skin also, as an example of the
condition of the buffalo immediately after shedding.

Output:
On June 6 the teams from Fort Keogh arrived, and we immediately returned
to Miles City, taking with us our live buffalo calf, two fresh buffalo
skeletons, three bleached skeletons, seven skulls, one skin entire, and
one head skin, in addition to a miscellaneous collection of skins and
skeletons of smaller mammals and birds.


Input:
On June 6 the teams from Fort Keogh arrived, and we immediately returned
to Miles City, taking with us our live buffalo calf, two fresh buffalo
skeletons, three bleached skeletons, seven skulls, one skin entire, and
one head skin, in addition to a miscellaneous collection of skins and
skeletons of smaller mammals and birds.

Output:
On reaching Miles City we
hastily packed and shipped our collection, and, taking the calf with us,
returned at once to Washington.

II.


Input:
On reaching Miles City we
hastily packed and shipped our collection, and, taking the calf with us,
returned at once to Washington.

II.

Output: THE HUNT.


Input: THE HUNT.

Output:
On September 24 I arrived at Miles City a second time, fully equipped
for a protracted hunt for buffalo; this time accompanied only by W.
Harvey Brown, a student of the University of Kansas, as field assistant,
having previously engaged three cowboys as guides and hunters--Irwin
Boyd, James McNaney, and L. S. Russell.


Input:
On September 24 I arrived at Miles City a second time, fully equipped
for a protracted hunt for buffalo; this time accompanied only by W.
Harvey Brown, a student of the University of Kansas, as field assistant,
having previously engaged three cowboys as guides and hunters--Irwin
Boyd, James McNaney, and L. S. Russell.

Output:
Messrs. Boyd and Russell were in
Miles City awaiting my arrival, and Mr. McNaney joined us in the field a
few days later.


Input:
Messrs. Boyd and Russell were in
Miles City awaiting my arrival, and Mr. McNaney joined us in the field a
few days later.

Output:
Mr. Boyd acted as my foreman during the entire hunt, a
position which he filled to my entire satisfaction.


Input:
Mr. Boyd acted as my foreman during the entire hunt, a
position which he filled to my entire satisfaction.

Output:
Thanks to the energy and good-will of the officers at Fort Keogh, of
which Lieutenant-Colonel Cochran was then in command, our
transportation, camp equipage, and stores were furnished without an
hour's delay.


Input:
Thanks to the energy and good-will of the officers at Fort Keogh, of
which Lieutenant-Colonel Cochran was then in command, our
transportation, camp equipage, and stores were furnished without an
hour's delay.

Output:
We purchased two months' supplies of commissary stores, a
team, and two saddle-horses, and hired three more horses, a light wagon,
and a set of double harness.


Input:
We purchased two months' supplies of commissary stores, a
team, and two saddle-horses, and hired three more horses, a light wagon,
and a set of double harness.

Output:
Each of the cowboys furnished one horse; so
that in our outfit we had ten head, a team, and two good saddle-horses
for each hunter.


Input:
Each of the cowboys furnished one horse; so
that in our outfit we had ten head, a team, and two good saddle-horses
for each hunter.

Output:
The worst feature of the whole question of subsistence
was the absolute necessity of hauling a supply of grain from Miles City
into the heart of the buffalo country for our ten horses.


Input:
The worst feature of the whole question of subsistence
was the absolute necessity of hauling a supply of grain from Miles City
into the heart of the buffalo country for our ten horses.

Output:
For such work
as they had to encounter it was necessary to feed them constantly and
liberally with oats in order to keep them in condition to do their work.


Input:
For such work
as they had to encounter it was necessary to feed them constantly and
liberally with oats in order to keep them in condition to do their work.

Output:
We took with us 2,000 pounds of oats, and by the beginning of November
as much more had to be hauled up to us.


Input:
We took with us 2,000 pounds of oats, and by the beginning of November
as much more had to be hauled up to us.

Output:
Thirty six hours after our arrival in Miles City our outfit was
complete, and we crossed the Yellowstone and started up the Sunday Creek
trail.


Input:
Thirty six hours after our arrival in Miles City our outfit was
complete, and we crossed the Yellowstone and started up the Sunday Creek
trail.

Output:
We had from Fort Keogh a six-mule team, an escort of four men, in
charge of Sergeant Bayliss, and an old veteran of more than twenty
years' service, from the Fifth Infantry, Private Patrick McCanna, who
was detailed to act as cook and camp-guard for our party during our stay
in the field.


Input:
We had from Fort Keogh a six-mule team, an escort of four men, in
charge of Sergeant Bayliss, and an old veteran of more than twenty
years' service, from the Fifth Infantry, Private Patrick McCanna, who
was detailed to act as cook and camp-guard for our party during our stay
in the field.

Output:
On September 29 we reached Tow's ranch, the =HV=, on Big Dry Creek
(erroneously called Big Timber Creek on most maps of Montana), at the
mouth of Sand Creek, which here flows into it from the southwest.


Input:
On September 29 we reached Tow's ranch, the =HV=, on Big Dry Creek
(erroneously called Big Timber Creek on most maps of Montana), at the
mouth of Sand Creek, which here flows into it from the southwest.

Output:
This
point is said to be 90 miles from Miles City.


Input:
This
point is said to be 90 miles from Miles City.

Output:
Here we received our
freight from the six-mule wagon, loaded it with bleached skeletons and
skulls of buffalo, and started it back to the post.


Input:
Here we received our
freight from the six-mule wagon, loaded it with bleached skeletons and
skulls of buffalo, and started it back to the post.

Output:
One member of the
escort, Private C. S. West, who was then on two months' furlough,
elected to join our party for the hunt, and accordingly remained with us
to its close.


Input:
One member of the
escort, Private C. S. West, who was then on two months' furlough,
elected to join our party for the hunt, and accordingly remained with us
to its close.

Output:
Leaving half of our freight stored at the =HV= ranch, we
loaded the remainder upon our own wagon, and started up Sand Creek.


Input:
Leaving half of our freight stored at the =HV= ranch, we
loaded the remainder upon our own wagon, and started up Sand Creek.

Output: [Illustration: SKETCH MAP OF THE HUNT FOR BUFFALO.


Input: [Illustration: SKETCH MAP OF THE HUNT FOR BUFFALO.

Output: MONTANA 1886.


Input: MONTANA 1886.


Output: At this point the hunt began.


Input: At this point the hunt began.

Output:
As the wagon and extra horses proceeded up
the Sand Creek trail in the care of W. Harvey Brown, the three cowboys
and I paired off, and while two hunted through the country along the
south side of the creek, the others took the north.


Input:
As the wagon and extra horses proceeded up
the Sand Creek trail in the care of W. Harvey Brown, the three cowboys
and I paired off, and while two hunted through the country along the
south side of the creek, the others took the north.

Output:
The whole of the
country bordering Sand Creek, quite up to its source, consists of rugged
hills and ridges, which sometimes rise to considerable height, cut
between by great yawning ravines and hollows, such as persecuted game
loves to seek shelter in.


Input:
The whole of the
country bordering Sand Creek, quite up to its source, consists of rugged
hills and ridges, which sometimes rise to considerable height, cut
between by great yawning ravines and hollows, such as persecuted game
loves to seek shelter in.

Output:
Inasmuch as the buffalo we were in search of
had been seen hiding in those ravines, it became necessary to search
through them with systematic thoroughness; a proceeding which was very
wearing upon our horses.


Input:
Inasmuch as the buffalo we were in search of
had been seen hiding in those ravines, it became necessary to search
through them with systematic thoroughness; a proceeding which was very
wearing upon our horses.

Output:
Along the south side of Sand Creek, near its
source, the divide between it and Little Dry Creek culminates in a chain
of high, flat-topped buttes, whose summits bear a scanty growth of
stunted pines, which serve to make them conspicuous landmarks.


Input:
Along the south side of Sand Creek, near its
source, the divide between it and Little Dry Creek culminates in a chain
of high, flat-topped buttes, whose summits bear a scanty growth of
stunted pines, which serve to make them conspicuous landmarks.

Output:
On some
maps these insignificant little buttes are shown as mountains, under the
name of "Piny Buttes.


Input:
On some
maps these insignificant little buttes are shown as mountains, under the
name of "Piny Buttes.

Output:
"

It was our intention to go to the head of Sand Creek, and beyond, in
case buffaloes were not found earlier.


Input:
"

It was our intention to go to the head of Sand Creek, and beyond, in
case buffaloes were not found earlier.

Output:
Immediately westward of its
source there is a lofty level plateau, about 3 miles square, which, by
common consent, we called the High Divide.


Input:
Immediately westward of its
source there is a lofty level plateau, about 3 miles square, which, by
common consent, we called the High Divide.

Output:
It is the highest ground
anywhere between the Big Dry and the Yellowstone, and is the starting
point of streams that run northward into the Missouri and Big Dry,
eastward into Sand Creek and the Little Dry, southward into Porcupine
Creek and the Yellowstone, and westward into the Musselshell.


Input:
It is the highest ground
anywhere between the Big Dry and the Yellowstone, and is the starting
point of streams that run northward into the Missouri and Big Dry,
eastward into Sand Creek and the Little Dry, southward into Porcupine
Creek and the Yellowstone, and westward into the Musselshell.

Output:
On three
sides--north, east, and south--it is surrounded by wild and rugged butte
country, and its sides are scored by intricate systems of great yawning
ravines and hollows, steep-sided and very deep, and bad lands of the
worst description.


Input:
On three
sides--north, east, and south--it is surrounded by wild and rugged butte
country, and its sides are scored by intricate systems of great yawning
ravines and hollows, steep-sided and very deep, and bad lands of the
worst description.

Output:
By the 12th of October the hunt had progressed up Sand Creek to its
source, and westward across the High Divide to Calf Creek, where we
found a hole of wretchedly bad water and went into permanent camp.


Input:
By the 12th of October the hunt had progressed up Sand Creek to its
source, and westward across the High Divide to Calf Creek, where we
found a hole of wretchedly bad water and went into permanent camp.

Output:
We
considered that the spot we selected would serve us as a key to the
promising country that lay on three sides of it, and our surmise that
the buffalo were in the habit of hiding in the heads of those great
ravines around the High Divide soon proved to be correct.


Input:
We
considered that the spot we selected would serve us as a key to the
promising country that lay on three sides of it, and our surmise that
the buffalo were in the habit of hiding in the heads of those great
ravines around the High Divide soon proved to be correct.

Output:
Our camp at
the head of Calf Creek was about 20 miles east of the Musselshell River,
40 miles south of the Missouri, and about 135 miles from Miles City, as
the trail ran.


Input:
Our camp at
the head of Calf Creek was about 20 miles east of the Musselshell River,
40 miles south of the Missouri, and about 135 miles from Miles City, as
the trail ran.

Output:
Four miles north of us, also on Calf Creek, was the line
camp of the =STV= ranch, owned by Messrs. J. H. Conrad & Co., and 18
miles east, near the head of Sand Creek, was the line camp of the
=N=-bar ranch, owned by Mr. Newman.


Input:
Four miles north of us, also on Calf Creek, was the line
camp of the =STV= ranch, owned by Messrs. J. H. Conrad & Co., and 18
miles east, near the head of Sand Creek, was the line camp of the
=N=-bar ranch, owned by Mr. Newman.

Output:
At each of these camps there were
generally from two to four cowboys.


Input:
At each of these camps there were
generally from two to four cowboys.

Output:
From all these gentlemen we received
the utmost courtesy and hospitality on all occasions, and all the
information in regard to buffalo which it was in their power to give.


Input:
From all these gentlemen we received
the utmost courtesy and hospitality on all occasions, and all the
information in regard to buffalo which it was in their power to give.

Output:
On
many occasions they rendered us valuable assistance, which is hereby
gratefully acknowledged.


Input:
On
many occasions they rendered us valuable assistance, which is hereby
gratefully acknowledged.

Output: We saw no buffalo, nor any signs of any, until October 13.


Input: We saw no buffalo, nor any signs of any, until October 13.

Output:
On that day,
while L. S. Russell was escorting our second load of freight across the
High Divide, he discovered a band of seven buffaloes lying in the head
of a deep ravine.


Input:
On that day,
while L. S. Russell was escorting our second load of freight across the
High Divide, he discovered a band of seven buffaloes lying in the head
of a deep ravine.

Output:
He fired upon them, but killed none, and when they
dashed away he gave chase and followed them 2 or 3 miles.


Input:
He fired upon them, but killed none, and when they
dashed away he gave chase and followed them 2 or 3 miles.

Output:
Being mounted
on a tired horse, which was unequal to the demands of the chase, he was
finally distanced by the herd, which took a straight course and ran due
south.


Input:
Being mounted
on a tired horse, which was unequal to the demands of the chase, he was
finally distanced by the herd, which took a straight course and ran due
south.

Output:
As it was then nearly night, nothing further could be done that
day except to prepare for a vigorous chase on the morrow.


Input:
As it was then nearly night, nothing further could be done that
day except to prepare for a vigorous chase on the morrow.

Output:
Everything was
got in perfect readiness for an early start, and by daybreak the
following morning the three cowboys and the writer were mounted on our
best horses, and on our way through the bad lands to take up the trail
of the seven buffaloes.


Input:
Everything was
got in perfect readiness for an early start, and by daybreak the
following morning the three cowboys and the writer were mounted on our
best horses, and on our way through the bad lands to take up the trail
of the seven buffaloes.

Output:
Shortly after sunrise we found the trail, not far from the head of Calf
Creek, and followed it due south.


Input:
Shortly after sunrise we found the trail, not far from the head of Calf
Creek, and followed it due south.

Output:
We left the rugged butte region behind
us, and entered a tract of country quite unlike anything we had found
before.


Input:
We left the rugged butte region behind
us, and entered a tract of country quite unlike anything we had found
before.

Output:
It was composed of a succession of rolling hills and deep
hollows, smooth enough on the surface, to all appearances, but like a
desert of sand-hills to traverse.


Input:
It was composed of a succession of rolling hills and deep
hollows, smooth enough on the surface, to all appearances, but like a
desert of sand-hills to traverse.

Output:
The dry soil was loose and crumbly,
like loose ashes or scoriæ, and the hoofs of our horses sank into it
half-way to the fetlocks at every step.


Input:
The dry soil was loose and crumbly,
like loose ashes or scoriæ, and the hoofs of our horses sank into it
half-way to the fetlocks at every step.

Output:
But there was another feature
which was still worse.


Input:
But there was another feature
which was still worse.

Output:
The whole surface of the ground was cracked and
seamed with a perfect net-work of great cracks, into which our horses
stepped every yard or so, and sank down still farther, with many a
tiresome wrench of the joints.


Input:
The whole surface of the ground was cracked and
seamed with a perfect net-work of great cracks, into which our horses
stepped every yard or so, and sank down still farther, with many a
tiresome wrench of the joints.

Output: It was terrible ground to go over.


Input: It was terrible ground to go over.

Output:
To
make it as bad as possible, a thick growth of sage-brush or else
grease-wood was everywhere present for the horses to struggle through,
and when it came to dragging a loaded wagon across that 12-mile stretch
of "bad grounds" or "gumbo ground," as it was called, it was killing
work.


Input:
To
make it as bad as possible, a thick growth of sage-brush or else
grease-wood was everywhere present for the horses to struggle through,
and when it came to dragging a loaded wagon across that 12-mile stretch
of "bad grounds" or "gumbo ground," as it was called, it was killing
work.

Output:
But in spite of the character of this ground, in one way it was a
benefit to us.


Input:
But in spite of the character of this ground, in one way it was a
benefit to us.

Output:
Owing to its looseness on the surface we were able to
track the buffaloes through it with the greatest ease, whereas on any
other ground in that country it would have been almost impossible.


Input:
Owing to its looseness on the surface we were able to
track the buffaloes through it with the greatest ease, whereas on any
other ground in that country it would have been almost impossible.

Output:
We
followed the trail due south for about 20 miles, which brought us to the
head of a small stream called Taylor Creek.


Input:
We
followed the trail due south for about 20 miles, which brought us to the
head of a small stream called Taylor Creek.

Output:
Here the bad grounds ended,
and in the grassy country which lay beyond, tracking was almost
impossible.


Input:
Here the bad grounds ended,
and in the grassy country which lay beyond, tracking was almost
impossible.

Output:
Just at noon we rode to a high point, and on scanning the
hills and hollows with the binocular discovered the buffaloes lying at
rest on the level top of a small butte 2 miles away.


Input:
Just at noon we rode to a high point, and on scanning the
hills and hollows with the binocular discovered the buffaloes lying at
rest on the level top of a small butte 2 miles away.

Output:
The original bunch
of seven had been joined by an equal number.


Input:
The original bunch
of seven had been joined by an equal number.

Output:
We crept up to within 200 yards of the buffaloes, which was as close as
we could go, fired a volley at them just as they lay, and did not even
kill a calf!


Input:
We crept up to within 200 yards of the buffaloes, which was as close as
we could go, fired a volley at them just as they lay, and did not even
kill a calf!

Output:
Instantly they sprang up and dashed away at astonishing
speed, heading straight for the sheltering ravines around the High
Divide.


Input:
Instantly they sprang up and dashed away at astonishing
speed, heading straight for the sheltering ravines around the High
Divide.

Output:
We had a most exciting and likewise dangerous chase after the herd
through a vast prairie-dog town, honey-combed with holes just right for
a running horse to thrust a leg in up to the knee and snap it off like a
pipe-stem, and across fearfully wide gullies that either had to be
leaped or fallen into.


Input:
We had a most exciting and likewise dangerous chase after the herd
through a vast prairie-dog town, honey-combed with holes just right for
a running horse to thrust a leg in up to the knee and snap it off like a
pipe-stem, and across fearfully wide gullies that either had to be
leaped or fallen into.

Output:
McNaney killed a fine old bull and a beautiful
two year old, or "spike" bull, out of this herd, while I managed to kill
a cow and another large old bull, making four for that day, all told.


Input:
McNaney killed a fine old bull and a beautiful
two year old, or "spike" bull, out of this herd, while I managed to kill
a cow and another large old bull, making four for that day, all told.

Output:
This herd of fourteen head was the largest that we saw during the entire
hunt.


Input:
This herd of fourteen head was the largest that we saw during the entire
hunt.

Output:
Two days later, when we were on the spot with the wagon to skin our game
and haul in the hides, four more buffaloes were discovered within 2
miles of us, and while I worked on one of the large bull skins to save
it from spoiling, the cowboys went after the buffalo, and by a really
brilliant exploit killed them all.


Input:
Two days later, when we were on the spot with the wagon to skin our game
and haul in the hides, four more buffaloes were discovered within 2
miles of us, and while I worked on one of the large bull skins to save
it from spoiling, the cowboys went after the buffalo, and by a really
brilliant exploit killed them all.

Output:
The first one to fall was an old cow,
which was killed at the beginning of the chase, the next was an old
bull, who was brought down about 5 miles from the scene of the first
attack, then 2 miles farther on a yearling calf was killed.


Input:
The first one to fall was an old cow,
which was killed at the beginning of the chase, the next was an old
bull, who was brought down about 5 miles from the scene of the first
attack, then 2 miles farther on a yearling calf was killed.

Output:
The fourth
buffalo, an immense old bull, was chased fully 12 miles before he was
finally brought down.


Input:
The fourth
buffalo, an immense old bull, was chased fully 12 miles before he was
finally brought down.

Output:
The largest bull fell about 8 miles from our temporary camp, in the
opposite direction from that in which our permanent camp lay, and at
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.


Input:
The largest bull fell about 8 miles from our temporary camp, in the
opposite direction from that in which our permanent camp lay, and at
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Output:
There not being time enough in which
to skin him completely and reach our rendezvous before dark, Messrs.
McNaney and Boyd dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, partly
skinned the legs, and came to camp.


Input:
There not being time enough in which
to skin him completely and reach our rendezvous before dark, Messrs.
McNaney and Boyd dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, partly
skinned the legs, and came to camp.

Output:
As early as possible the next morning we drove to the carcass with the
wagon, to prepare both skin and skeleton and haul them in.


Input:
As early as possible the next morning we drove to the carcass with the
wagon, to prepare both skin and skeleton and haul them in.

Output:
When we
reached it we found that during the night a gang of Indians had robbed
us of our hard-earned spoil.


Input:
When we
reached it we found that during the night a gang of Indians had robbed
us of our hard-earned spoil.

Output:
They had stolen the skin and all the
eatable meat, broken up the leg-bones to get at the marrow, and even cut
out the tongue.


Input:
They had stolen the skin and all the
eatable meat, broken up the leg-bones to get at the marrow, and even cut
out the tongue.

Output: And to injury the skulking thieves had added insult.


Input: And to injury the skulking thieves had added insult.

Output:
Through laziness they had left the head unskinned, but on one side of it
they had smeared the hair with red war-paint, the other side they had
daubed with yellow, and around the base of one horn they had tied a
strip of red flannel as a signal of defiance.


Input:
Through laziness they had left the head unskinned, but on one side of it
they had smeared the hair with red war-paint, the other side they had
daubed with yellow, and around the base of one horn they had tied a
strip of red flannel as a signal of defiance.

Output:
Of course they had left
for parts unknown, and we never saw any signs of them afterward.


Input:
Of course they had left
for parts unknown, and we never saw any signs of them afterward.

Output:
The
gang visited the =LU=-bar ranch a few days later, so we learned
subsequently.


Input:
The
gang visited the =LU=-bar ranch a few days later, so we learned
subsequently.

Output:
It was then composed of eleven braves(!), who claimed to
be Assinniboines, and were therefore believed to be Piegans, the most
notorious horse and cattle thieves in the Northwest.


Input:
It was then composed of eleven braves(!), who claimed to
be Assinniboines, and were therefore believed to be Piegans, the most
notorious horse and cattle thieves in the Northwest.

Output:
On October 22d Mr. Russell ran down in a fair chase a fine bull buffalo,
and killed him in the rough country bordering the High Divide on the
south.


Input:
On October 22d Mr. Russell ran down in a fair chase a fine bull buffalo,
and killed him in the rough country bordering the High Divide on the
south.

Output: This was the ninth specimen.


Input: This was the ninth specimen.

Output:
On the 26th we made an other trip
with the wagon to the Buffalo Buttes, as, for the sake of convenience,
we had named the group of buttes near which eight head had already been
taken.


Input:
On the 26th we made an other trip
with the wagon to the Buffalo Buttes, as, for the sake of convenience,
we had named the group of buttes near which eight head had already been
taken.

Output:
While Mr. Brown and I were getting the wagon across the bad
grounds, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd discovered a solitary bull buffalo
feeding in a ravine within a quarter of a mile of our intended camping
place, and the former stalked him and killed him at long range.


Input:
While Mr. Brown and I were getting the wagon across the bad
grounds, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd discovered a solitary bull buffalo
feeding in a ravine within a quarter of a mile of our intended camping
place, and the former stalked him and killed him at long range.

Output:
The
buffalo had all been attracted to that locality by some springs which
lay between two groups of hills, and which was the only water within a
radius of about 15 miles.


Input:
The
buffalo had all been attracted to that locality by some springs which
lay between two groups of hills, and which was the only water within a
radius of about 15 miles.

Output:
In addition to water, the grass around the
Buffalo Buttes was most excellent.


Input:
In addition to water, the grass around the
Buffalo Buttes was most excellent.

Output:
During all this time we shot antelope and coyotes whenever an
opportunity offered, and preserved the skins and skeletons of the finest
until we had obtained a very fine series of both.


Input:
During all this time we shot antelope and coyotes whenever an
opportunity offered, and preserved the skins and skeletons of the finest
until we had obtained a very fine series of both.

Output:
At this season the
pelts of these animals were in the finest possible condition, the hair
having attained its maximum length and density, and, being quite new,
had lost none of its brightness of color, either by wear or the action
of the weather.


Input:
At this season the
pelts of these animals were in the finest possible condition, the hair
having attained its maximum length and density, and, being quite new,
had lost none of its brightness of color, either by wear or the action
of the weather.

Output:
Along Sand Creek and all around the High Divide antelope
were moderately plentiful (but really scarce in comparison with their
former abundance), so much so that had we been inclined to slaughter we
could have killed a hundred head or more, instead of the twenty that we
shot as specimens and for their flesh.


Input:
Along Sand Creek and all around the High Divide antelope
were moderately plentiful (but really scarce in comparison with their
former abundance), so much so that had we been inclined to slaughter we
could have killed a hundred head or more, instead of the twenty that we
shot as specimens and for their flesh.

Output:
We have it to say that from first
to last not an antelope was killed which was not made use of to the
fullest extent.


Input:
We have it to say that from first
to last not an antelope was killed which was not made use of to the
fullest extent.

Output:
On the 31st of October, Mr. Boyd and I discovered a buffalo cow and
yearling calf in the ravines north of the High Divide, within 3 miles of
our camp, and killed them both.


Input:
On the 31st of October, Mr. Boyd and I discovered a buffalo cow and
yearling calf in the ravines north of the High Divide, within 3 miles of
our camp, and killed them both.

Output:
The next day Private West arrived with a
six mule team from Fort Keogh, in charge of Corporal Clafer and three
men.


Input:
The next day Private West arrived with a
six mule team from Fort Keogh, in charge of Corporal Clafer and three
men.

Output:
This wagon brought us another 2,000 pounds of oats and various
commissary stores.


Input:
This wagon brought us another 2,000 pounds of oats and various
commissary stores.

Output:
When it started back, on November 3, we sent by it
all the skins and skeletons of buffalo, antelope, etc., which we had
collected up to that date, which made a heavy load for the six mules.


Input:
When it started back, on November 3, we sent by it
all the skins and skeletons of buffalo, antelope, etc., which we had
collected up to that date, which made a heavy load for the six mules.

Output:
On
this same day Mr. McNaney killed two young cow buffaloes in the bad
lands south of the High Divide, which brought our total number up to
fourteen.


Input:
On
this same day Mr. McNaney killed two young cow buffaloes in the bad
lands south of the High Divide, which brought our total number up to
fourteen.

Output:
On the night of the 3d the weather turned very cold, and on the day
following we experienced our first snow-storm.


Input:
On the night of the 3d the weather turned very cold, and on the day
following we experienced our first snow-storm.

Output:
By that time the water in
the hole, which up to that time had supplied our camp, became so thick
with mud and filth that it was unendurable; and having discovered a fine
pool of pure water in the bottom of a little cañon on the southern slope
of the High Divide we moved to it forthwith.


Input:
By that time the water in
the hole, which up to that time had supplied our camp, became so thick
with mud and filth that it was unendurable; and having discovered a fine
pool of pure water in the bottom of a little cañon on the southern slope
of the High Divide we moved to it forthwith.

Output:
It was really the upper
spring of the main fork of the Big Porcupine, and a finer situation for
a camp does not exist in that whole region.


Input:
It was really the upper
spring of the main fork of the Big Porcupine, and a finer situation for
a camp does not exist in that whole region.

Output:
The spot which nature made
for us was sheltered on all sides by the high walls of the cañon, within
easy reach of an inexhaustible supply of good water, and also within
reach of a fair supply of dry fire-wood, which we found half a mile
below.


Input:
The spot which nature made
for us was sheltered on all sides by the high walls of the cañon, within
easy reach of an inexhaustible supply of good water, and also within
reach of a fair supply of dry fire-wood, which we found half a mile
below.

Output:
This became our last permanent camp, and its advantages made up
for the barrenness and discomfort of our camp on Calf Creek.


Input:
This became our last permanent camp, and its advantages made up
for the barrenness and discomfort of our camp on Calf Creek.

Output:
Immediately
south of us, and 2 miles distant there rose a lofty conical butte about
600 feet high, which forms a very conspicuous landmark from the south.


Input:
Immediately
south of us, and 2 miles distant there rose a lofty conical butte about
600 feet high, which forms a very conspicuous landmark from the south.

Output: We were told that it was visible from 40 miles down the Porcupine.


Input: We were told that it was visible from 40 miles down the Porcupine.

Output:
Strange to say, this valuable landmark was without a name, so far as we
could learn; so, for our own convenience, we christened it Smithsonian
Butte.


Input:
Strange to say, this valuable landmark was without a name, so far as we
could learn; so, for our own convenience, we christened it Smithsonian
Butte.

Output:
The two buffalo cows that Mr. McNaney killed just before we moved our
camp seemed to be the last in the country, for during the following week
we scouted for 15 miles in three directions, north, east, and south,
without finding as much as a hoof-print.


Input:
The two buffalo cows that Mr. McNaney killed just before we moved our
camp seemed to be the last in the country, for during the following week
we scouted for 15 miles in three directions, north, east, and south,
without finding as much as a hoof-print.

Output:
At last we decided to go away
and give that country absolute quiet for a week, in the hope that some
more buffalo would come into it.


Input:
At last we decided to go away
and give that country absolute quiet for a week, in the hope that some
more buffalo would come into it.

Output:
Leaving McCanna and West to take care
of the camp, we loaded a small assortment of general equipage into the
wagon and pulled about 25 miles due west to the Musselshell River.


Input:
Leaving McCanna and West to take care
of the camp, we loaded a small assortment of general equipage into the
wagon and pulled about 25 miles due west to the Musselshell River.

Output:
We found a fine stream of clear water, flowing over sand and pebbles,
with heavy cottonwood timber and thick copses of willow along its banks,
which afforded cover for white-tailed deer.


Input:
We found a fine stream of clear water, flowing over sand and pebbles,
with heavy cottonwood timber and thick copses of willow along its banks,
which afforded cover for white-tailed deer.

Output:
In the rugged brakes, which
led from the level river bottom into a labyrinth of ravines and gullies,
ridges and hog-backs, up to the level of the high plateau above, we
found a scanty growth of stunted cedars and pines, which once sheltered
great numbers of mule deer, elk, and bear.


Input:
In the rugged brakes, which
led from the level river bottom into a labyrinth of ravines and gullies,
ridges and hog-backs, up to the level of the high plateau above, we
found a scanty growth of stunted cedars and pines, which once sheltered
great numbers of mule deer, elk, and bear.

Output:
Now, however, few remain, and
these are very hard to find.


Input:
Now, however, few remain, and
these are very hard to find.

Output:
Even when found, the deer are nearly always
young.


Input:
Even when found, the deer are nearly always
young.

Output:
Although we killed five mule deer and five white-tails, we did
not kill even one fine buck, and the only one we saw on the whole trip
was a long distance off.


Input:
Although we killed five mule deer and five white-tails, we did
not kill even one fine buck, and the only one we saw on the whole trip
was a long distance off.

Output:
We saw fresh tracks of elk, and also grizzly
bear, but our most vigorous efforts to discover the animals themselves
always ended in disappointment.


Input:
We saw fresh tracks of elk, and also grizzly
bear, but our most vigorous efforts to discover the animals themselves
always ended in disappointment.

Output:
The many bleaching skulls and antlers of
elk and deer, which we found everywhere we went, afforded proof of what
that country had been as a home for wild animals only a few years ago.


Input:
The many bleaching skulls and antlers of
elk and deer, which we found everywhere we went, afforded proof of what
that country had been as a home for wild animals only a few years ago.

Output:
We were not a little surprised at finding the fleshless carcasses of
three head of cattle that had been killed and eaten by bears within a
few months.


Input:
We were not a little surprised at finding the fleshless carcasses of
three head of cattle that had been killed and eaten by bears within a
few months.

Output:
In addition to ten deer, we shot three wild geese, seven sharp-tailed
grouse, eleven sage grouse, nine Bohemian waxwings, and a magpie, for
their skeletons.


Input:
In addition to ten deer, we shot three wild geese, seven sharp-tailed
grouse, eleven sage grouse, nine Bohemian waxwings, and a magpie, for
their skeletons.

Output:
We made one trip of several miles up the Musselshell,
and another due west, almost to the Bull Mountains, but no signs of
buffalo were found.


Input:
We made one trip of several miles up the Musselshell,
and another due west, almost to the Bull Mountains, but no signs of
buffalo were found.

Output:
The weather at this time was quite cold, the
thermometer registering 6 degrees below zero; but, in spite of the fact
that we were without shelter and had to bivouac in the open, we were,
generally speaking, quite comfortable.


Input:
The weather at this time was quite cold, the
thermometer registering 6 degrees below zero; but, in spite of the fact
that we were without shelter and had to bivouac in the open, we were,
generally speaking, quite comfortable.

Output:
Having found no buffalo by the 17th, we felt convinced that we ought to
return to our permanent camp, and did so on that day.


Input:
Having found no buffalo by the 17th, we felt convinced that we ought to
return to our permanent camp, and did so on that day.

Output:
Having brought
back nearly half a wagon-load of specimens in the flesh or half skinned,
it was absolutely necessary that I should remain at camp all the next
day.


Input:
Having brought
back nearly half a wagon-load of specimens in the flesh or half skinned,
it was absolutely necessary that I should remain at camp all the next
day.

Output:
While I did so, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd rode over to the Buffalo
Buttes, found four fine old buffalo cows, and, after a hard chase,
killed them all.


Input:
While I did so, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd rode over to the Buffalo
Buttes, found four fine old buffalo cows, and, after a hard chase,
killed them all.

Output:
Under the circumstances, this was the most brilliant piece of work of
the entire hunt.


Input:
Under the circumstances, this was the most brilliant piece of work of
the entire hunt.

Output:
As the four cows dashed past the hunters at the Buffalo
Buttes, heading for the High Divide, fully 20 miles distant, McNaney
killed one cow, and two others went off wounded.


Input:
As the four cows dashed past the hunters at the Buffalo
Buttes, heading for the High Divide, fully 20 miles distant, McNaney
killed one cow, and two others went off wounded.

Output:
Of course the cowboys
gave chase.


Input:
Of course the cowboys
gave chase.

Output:
About 12 miles from the starting-point one of the wounded
cows left her companions, was headed off by Boyd, and killed.


Input:
About 12 miles from the starting-point one of the wounded
cows left her companions, was headed off by Boyd, and killed.

Output:
About 6
miles beyond that one, McNaney overhauled the third cow and killed her,
but the fourth one got away for a short time.


Input:
About 6
miles beyond that one, McNaney overhauled the third cow and killed her,
but the fourth one got away for a short time.

Output:
While McNaney skinned the
third cow and dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, Boyd took their
now thoroughly exhausted horses to camp and procured fresh mounts.


Input:
While McNaney skinned the
third cow and dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, Boyd took their
now thoroughly exhausted horses to camp and procured fresh mounts.

Output:
On
returning to McNaney they set out in pursuit of the fourth cow, chased
her across the High Divide, within a mile or so of our camp, and into
the ravines on the northern slope, where she was killed.


Input:
On
returning to McNaney they set out in pursuit of the fourth cow, chased
her across the High Divide, within a mile or so of our camp, and into
the ravines on the northern slope, where she was killed.

Output:
She met her
death nearly if not quite 25 miles from the spot where the first one
fell.


Input:
She met her
death nearly if not quite 25 miles from the spot where the first one
fell.

Output:
The death of these four cows brought our number of buffaloes up to
eighteen, and made us think about the possibilities of getting thirty.


Input:
The death of these four cows brought our number of buffaloes up to
eighteen, and made us think about the possibilities of getting thirty.

Output:
As we were proceeding to the Buffalo Buttes on the day after the "kill"
to gather in the spoil, Mr. Brown and I taking charge of the wagon,
Messrs. McNaney and Boyd went ahead in order to hunt.


Input:
As we were proceeding to the Buffalo Buttes on the day after the "kill"
to gather in the spoil, Mr. Brown and I taking charge of the wagon,
Messrs. McNaney and Boyd went ahead in order to hunt.

Output:
When within about
5 miles of the Buttes we came unexpectedly upon our companions, down in
a hollow, busily engaged in skinning another old cow, which they had
discovered traveling across the bad grounds, waylaid, and killed.


Input:
When within about
5 miles of the Buttes we came unexpectedly upon our companions, down in
a hollow, busily engaged in skinning another old cow, which they had
discovered traveling across the bad grounds, waylaid, and killed.

Output:
We camped that night on our old ground at the Buffalo Buttes, and
although we all desired to remain a day or two and hunt for more
buffalo, the peculiar appearance of the sky in the northwest, and the
condition of the atmosphere, warned us that a change of weather was
imminent.


Input:
We camped that night on our old ground at the Buffalo Buttes, and
although we all desired to remain a day or two and hunt for more
buffalo, the peculiar appearance of the sky in the northwest, and the
condition of the atmosphere, warned us that a change of weather was
imminent.

Output:
Accordingly, the following morning we decided without
hesitation that it was best to get back to camp that day, and it soon
proved very fortunate for us that we so decided.


Input:
Accordingly, the following morning we decided without
hesitation that it was best to get back to camp that day, and it soon
proved very fortunate for us that we so decided.

Output:
Feeling that by reason of my work on the specimens I had been deprived
of a fair share of the chase, I arranged for Mr. Boyd to accompany the
wagon on the return trip, that I might hunt through the bad lands west
of the Buffalo Buttes, which I felt must contain some buffalo.


Input:
Feeling that by reason of my work on the specimens I had been deprived
of a fair share of the chase, I arranged for Mr. Boyd to accompany the
wagon on the return trip, that I might hunt through the bad lands west
of the Buffalo Buttes, which I felt must contain some buffalo.

Output:
Mr.
Russell went northeast and Mr. McNaney accompanied me.


Input:
Mr.
Russell went northeast and Mr. McNaney accompanied me.

Output:
About 4 miles
from our late camp we came suddenly upon a fine old solitary bull,
feeding in a hollow between two high and precipitous ridges.


Input:
About 4 miles
from our late camp we came suddenly upon a fine old solitary bull,
feeding in a hollow between two high and precipitous ridges.

Output:
After a
short but sharp chase I succeeded in getting a fair shot at him, and
killed him with a ball which broke his left humerus and passed into his
lungs.


Input:
After a
short but sharp chase I succeeded in getting a fair shot at him, and
killed him with a ball which broke his left humerus and passed into his
lungs.

Output:
He was the only large bull killed on the entire trip by a single
shot.


Input:
He was the only large bull killed on the entire trip by a single
shot.

Output:
He proved to be a very fine specimen, measuring 5 feet 6 inches in
height at the shoulders.


Input:
He proved to be a very fine specimen, measuring 5 feet 6 inches in
height at the shoulders.

Output:
The wagon was overtaken and called back to get
the skin, and while it was coming I took a complete series of
measurements and sketches of him as he lay.


Input:
The wagon was overtaken and called back to get
the skin, and while it was coming I took a complete series of
measurements and sketches of him as he lay.

Output:
Although we removed the skin very quickly, and lost no time in again
starting the wagon to our permanent camp, the delay occasioned by the
death of our twentieth buffalo,--which occurred on November 20,
precisely two months from the date of our leaving Washington to collect
twenty buffalo, it possible,--caused us all to be caught in a
snow-storm, which burst upon us from the northwest.


Input:
Although we removed the skin very quickly, and lost no time in again
starting the wagon to our permanent camp, the delay occasioned by the
death of our twentieth buffalo,--which occurred on November 20,
precisely two months from the date of our leaving Washington to collect
twenty buffalo, it possible,--caused us all to be caught in a
snow-storm, which burst upon us from the northwest.

Output:
The wagon had to be
abandoned about 12 miles from camp in the bad lands.


Input:
The wagon had to be
abandoned about 12 miles from camp in the bad lands.

Output:
Mr. Brown packed
the bedding on one of the horses and rode the other, he and Boyd
reaching camp about 9 o'clock that night in a blinding snow-storm.


Input:
Mr. Brown packed
the bedding on one of the horses and rode the other, he and Boyd
reaching camp about 9 o'clock that night in a blinding snow-storm.

Output:
Of
coarse the skins in the wagon were treated with preservatives and
covered up.


Input:
Of
coarse the skins in the wagon were treated with preservatives and
covered up.

Output:
It proved to be over a week that the wagon and its load had
to remain thus abandoned before it was possible to get to it and bring
it to camp, and even then the task was one of great difficulty.