"They have lost the trail of the squatter, and are on its hunt.

These buffaloes have crossed their path, and in chasing the animals, bad luck has led them in open sight of the hill on which the brood of Ishmael have harboured.

Do you see yon birds watching for the offals of the beast they have killed?
Therein is a moral, which teaches the manner of a prairie life.

A band of Pawnees are outlying for these very Siouxes, as you see the buzzards looking down for their food, and it behoves us, as Christian men who have so much at stake, to look down upon them both.

Ha! what brings yonder two skirting reptiles to a stand?
As you live, they have found the place where the miserable son of the squatter met his death!" The old man was not mistaken.