The Modoc and Pah Ute Indians are, or rather have been, the most successful hunters of the wild sheep in the regions that have come under my own observation.

He did not do this to save expenses, but because he wanted to do as the other hunters in the party were doing.

Leaving my partner, Rose, to complete our grading contract, I immediately began my career as a buffalo hunter for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and it was not long before I acquired considerable notoriety.

We returned to the hunters with this information, and they at once consulted with me as to the best way to attack the "enemy.

" "Like a hunter on a trail.

The hunt came to an end in a day or two, and we escorted the visiting hunters to North Platte, where they took the train for Chicago.

Close after them came the hunters from the western barren lands, bringing with them loads of white fox and caribou skins, and an army of big-footed, long-legged Mackenzie hounds that pulled like horses and wailed like whipped puppies when the huskies and Eskimo dogs set upon them.

[Footnote 7: Head Hunters of Borneo, p. 209.

In proof of this assertion, it will be sufficient to give a slight sketch of the different views and opinions of the gold-makers, Rosicrucians, manufacturers of astralian salts, drops of life, and tinctures of gold, hunters after the philosopher's stone, and other equally absurd chimera.

They were killed in the Tucson Mountains by the 'Logan boys,' well known hunters at that time.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

'DEAR SIR, 'The gentleman who waits on you with this, is Mr. Cruikshanks, who wishes to succeed his friend Dr. Hunter as Professor of Anatomy in the Royal Academy.

Kenton was a native of Fauquier county, Virginia, where he was born the fifteenth of May, 1755; his companions were roving backwoodsmen, denizens of the wood, and hunters like himself.

Even the sacred writings introduce us to Nimrod, the first mighty hunter before the Lord, and tell us that Ishmael, in the solitudes of Arabia, became a skilful bow-man; and that David, when yet young, was not afraid to join in combat with the lion or the bear.

Great numbers of Indians were of course required, more, indeed, than they could usually muster, counting in squaws, children, and all; they were compelled, therefore, to build rows of dummy hunters out of stones, along the ridge-tops which they wished to prevent the sheep from crossing.

They brought the buckboard perilously through the shrubbery and then managed, with infinite labor, to lift Bull Hunter into it.

One of my hunters during last fall only secured one bear, one silver gray fox, and two land otter.

Let it here be said that there are no grooms in the world who better understand conditioning hunters than those of Leicestershire.

General Early, an officer of great energy and intrepidity, moved without loss of time, and an engagement ensued between him and General Hunter near Lynchburg.

There were many good hunters among the settlers; the Smith brothers scorned to shoot a bird or squirrel except through the head.

The Admiralty accept no guesswork from the hunters about their exploits; they must bring the brush to prove the kill.

But just at that instant there came, down the Monroeville Road, and around the base of a small rise of ground, a Native hunter over whose shoulder was hung a dozen or more ptarmigan, the grouse of the North.

These were most difficult conditions under which to hunt, for sheep have wonderful vision and can see a hunter through the mist long before they can be seen.

" Aldous knew that in these last hours Donald MacDonald's judgment must be final, and he made no objection to an arrangement which seemed to place the old hunter under a more hazardous risk than his own.

Here we found that the earth had been thrown up two feet high, presenting an angle to the river, quite ingeniously concealed by willows, and forming a sort of rifle-pit, from which a hunter without disclosing his hiding place could bring down swans, geese, ducks, pelicans, and even the furred animals that made their homes along the river bank.