Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-06-01
"He will not fall"
"But if he should fall Z"

"Why, IN that case you Woui0 nave very
slender chances ofescape. Yet even that
has been known; but should you fall so
gIoriously, promise to make a fearful
massacre of cibolos in your honor
"Listen," said l, ''there are thousand
things would do for you in preference to
this. involuntarily hunted tiger few
days ago, bea: last night, and do net
care now to allow myself to be hunted by a
bison, Everything considered, prefer
lending you my horse"
II did not venture to ask such
favor; and, besides" naively added the
hunter, 81 thought to please you by pro-
posing this diversion to you"
i I thanked him for his kind intentions
and, although deligh ted to escape this d.
lemma, gave him the rein of my horse
with sigh. The buccaneer began by
unsaddling him, folded up four times the
blanket which he used as cloak, and
fastened it on the horses back, by means
of the long faje of China Grape rolled
round his body. Then taking off his CAL
zoneras, doe-skin boots and jacket, he re-
manned with bare feet, in short drawers
and shirt sleeves.
"Asthe game am going to play is
somewhat ticklish one,' said he, 81 can
not give the horse and myself too much
freedom of motion, and you will see what
can be done with an animal properly ar
ranged"
Thus equipped, and having hung spe-
cies OF raper, very thin and sharp, to his
saddle, the hunter sprung on the horses
back, and ascertained that in case of ne
cessity the faja might be used as stirrups
and bear the entire weight of his body,
thus enabling him to leave the reins per-
lectly free. Then with deXIerity which
must have equalled that of the ancient
Numidians, he pulled up his horse, urged
him forward, stopped him. rolled up in
his left hand the cabreSto,* of which he
held one extremity, galloped off like an
arrow, and returned to my side with the
same rapidly.
'You do not know the value Of such
horse" said he, ''and 1 almost reproach
myself for depriving you of an opportunity
of knowing what treasure you possess.
must confess that the animal did not
seem the same in the hands of this wild
rider; |, however, earnestly entreated
the hunter not to expose him too much to
the horns Of the bisons.
awe run the same risk" replied the
buccaneer, laughing. He then gave US
his instructions. We were to lie flat on
our stomachs, gun in hand, on the slope
bordering the river, and watch through the
long grass the movements of the ANIMALS
he should drive towards US. However"
[ be added, ''betore placing yourself in am
buscade, you will have time senior, to
witness such race. as you will rarely
have an opportunity of seeing. wish to
show you what may be expected ola good
horse mounted by an expert hunter.
He then rushed off in the direction of
the flock of cibolas, whose distant below
ing came to us with the breeze. | re-
manned standing on the edge of the river,
in order to lose nothing Of the nteresting
sight promised me The hunter began by
making great circuit, clearing with i'm.
perturable ease the prickly fix-trees and
the inequalities of ground with which the
plain was studded; the horse seemed
rather to fly than run, and neighed joyful
f ly; the rider then disappeared behind
hill of some little elevation. Meanwhile
the buccaneers daring companion had set
in the ground willow branch, surmount
ed by checked scarlet handkerchief
l asked if this was signal for bis COM
rade.
mo, replied the hunter. "Bisons are
like bulls, red irrritates them. lfJoaquin
gets away one or two, this handkerchief
will infalliably attract them here, and we
can then kill them. Be careful to aim at
their muzzles at the moment they spring
on US"
SIS it then Indispensable, asked the
buccaneer, ''to attract them just here :"
at is my trade" replied the bueeaneer,
who, like Matasiete, forgot that | was not
hunter by profession. As he ceased
speaking, we remarked sort of shudder
and agitation in the ranks Of the flock of
bisons which covered the lower slopes OF
the hilI behind which Joaquin had disap-
peared. The rash hunter had just as
cended the opposite height. When he
f reached the summit, he uttered two shrill
screams, which wee answered by pro-
: prolonge roarings, then rushed from top
to bottom of the bill like piece of rock
} breaking away, and disappeared amid that
thick forest of horns and black Names
J The frightened flock made an alarming
; movement towards our signals; but soon
: dispersed in various directions, broken up
into numerous groups. then saw Joa-
quin, safe and sound, gallop into the midst
5 ofthe space he had cleared. Two bisons
r of gigantic size seemed the leaders of one
> of the columns detached from the princi-
> pal flock, and the hunter seemed to direct
Z his attack against these two monstrous
/. beasts. lowering in the rear Of the bat.