Compton's Atlas of the Ancient World

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Transcription: The whole country seemed one mass of buffalo moving slowly. The warriors approached the unsuspecting animals at a slow walk. When the near approach of this line alarmed the herd sufficiently to start it on the run, a signal was given and the whole line dashed forward. The massed herd started at full speed, stampeding and bringing with them the countless herds through which they passed. They poured down, no longer separated but compacted into one mass of plunging monsters, with fright. Irresistible as an avalanche, the herd rushed headlong over the prairie and plunged over the precipice in the ...