athered near a mighty herd of the bisonin the
Moon of Falling Leaves. These were the first generation of the Canadian
mixed-bloodswho sprang up in such numbers as to form almost a new
people. These semi-wild Americans soon became a ne- cessity to the
Hudson Bay Companyas they were the greatest hunters of the bisonand
made more use of this wonderful animal than even their aboriginal
ancestors.
A curious race of people thisin their make-up and their customs
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Their shaggy black hair was allowed to grow longreaching to their broad
shouldersthen cut off abruptlymaking their heads look like a thatched
house. Their dark faces were in most cases well covered with hairtheir
teeth large and whiteand their eyes usually liquid blackalthough
occasionally one had a tiger-brown or cold-gray eye. Their cos- tume
was a buckskin shirt with abundance of fringesbuckskin pantaloons with
short leg- ginsa gay sashand a cap of fox-fur. Their arms consisted of
flint-lock gunshatchetsand butcher-knives. Their ponies were small
but as hardy as themselves.
As these men gathered in the neighborhood of an immense herd of
buffaloesthey busied themselves in adjusting the girths of their
beautiyilai:
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