*e [Footnote d: "Five years ago," (says Volney in his "Tableau des Etats-Unis," p.

370) "in going from Vincennes to Kaskaskia, a territory which now forms part of the State of Illinois, but which at the time I mention was completely wild (1797), you could not cross a prairie without seeing herds of from four to five hundred buffaloes.

There are now none remaining; they swam across the Mississippi to escape from the hunters, and more particularly from the bells of the American cows."] [Footnote e: The truth of what I here advance may be easily proved by consulting the tabular statement of Indian tribes inhabiting the United States and their territories.

(Legislative Documents, 20th Congress, No.

117, pp.