He replied, with readiness, two hundred and twenty, of whom sixty-six were males grown, and fifty-four hunters.

Fairfax emptied his magazine into the men to right and left of her, and swung his rifle to meet the big hunter.

" "Where does he enter," asked the hunter, "when he comes back here?"

West's sulky, insolent eyes turned on the buffalo-hunter.

They found two hunters, whom they brought back with them, and then called on Fâ-hien to act as interpreter and question them.

The Grand Duke was told to follow upon the heels of one celebrated Indian hunter, whose name was "Two Lance," and watch him bring down the game; for this chief had the reputation of being able to send an arrow through and through the body of a buffalo.

I'll ride a hunter I've got; he's rather stiffer than Adonis, and better up to rough work.

The Foxes had killed a young Menomonie hunter, near the mouth of the Wisconsin, and cut off his head.

The result was that his kindness was mistaken for weakness, and just as he was about to leave his hunters struck for an increase of pay.

He knew that a man such as Marcos, possessing the instinct of the chase and that deep insight into the thoughts and actions of others, even into the thoughts and actions of animals, which makes a great hunter or a great captain, would never have let slip the feeble clue that he had of the incident in the Calle San Gregorio.

But since the warriors were all gone so strangely and suddenly, this brown speck now crossing the river must have been the antlered head of a deer swimming to the other side, thus giving the hunters warning that these green hills would soon be white with snow.

I saw one day a hunter who had come into the woods with a motive in some degree like mineimpatience of the restraints and burdens of civilization, and pure love of solitude.

For he had promised to send out the hunters for all game that could be found, and give us a true forest meal; and we were curious to taste what lapo, quenco, guazupita-deer, and other strange meats might be like.

"I heard it again!" exclaimed the hunter.

I know only two hunters who claim to have actually witnessed this feat; I never was so fortunate.

On a rising ground that partially overlooked the plain, Oriana and her companion took up their position, beneath the shade of a grove of pines; and they watched the hunters as they examined the foot- prints on the dewy turf, or followed the tracks of the elks and buffaloes through the long prairie-grass, in order to make their arrangements for enclosing the game and driving the animals into an open and central situation.

Beyond the bush behind which he now crouched all was bare open ground, without a shrub or a hillock large enough to conceal the hunter.

"Don't you think the wind is rising a bit, Tayoga?" whispered the hunter.

Winona would not listen to the warrior's addresses and told her parents she preferred the hunter, who would always be with her, to the warrior, who would be constantly away on martial exploits.

Swift as lightning they circled about the grizzly, spreading themselves on their forefeet, ready to spring aside or backward to avoid sudden rushes, and giving voice now to that quick, fierce yapping which tells hunters their quarry is at bay.

In these vast forests, also, were to be found (if the race was not extinct) those mysterious fawns that tempted solitary hunters into visionary and perilous pursuits.

To attempt to pass the warriors in such a light would be like walking on an open plain, thought the hunter, and, always quick to decide, he took his resolution.

He stamped and snorted to frighten the hunter away but the hand moved dauntlessly high and higherit rested between his eyesit passed across his head, always with that faint tingle of pleasure trailing behind the touch; and the voice was saying in broken tones: "Some damn fools say they ain't a God!

Most of the bodies, although much mutilated, lay in a posture that led our hunters to believe they had been killed while asleep; but one or two were cut almost to pieces, and from the blood-bespattered and trampled sward around, it seemed as if they had struggled long and fiercely for life.

British groan, like squaw dat lose her hunter.