When this has been accomplished they raise loud shouts and, pressing close upon the animals, so terrify them that they rush heedlessly forward towards the snare.

When they have advanced as far as the men who are lying in ambush they also rise and increase the consternation by violent shouting and firing guns.

The affrighted beasts having no alternative run directly to the pound where they are quickly despatched either with an arrow or gun.
There was a tree in the centre of the pound on which the Indians had hung strips of buffalo flesh and pieces of cloth as tributary or grateful offerings to the Great Master of Life; and we were told that they occasionally place a man in the tree to sing to the presiding spirit as the buffaloes are advancing who must keep his station until the whole that have entered are killed.

This species of hunting is very similar to that of taking elephants on the island of Ceylon but upon a smaller scale.
The Crees complained to us of the audacity of a party of Stone Indians who two nights before had stripped their revered tree of many of its offerings and had injured their pound by setting their stakes out of the proper places.
Other modes of killing the buffalo are practised by the Indians with success; of these the hunting them on horseback requires most dexterity.
An expert hunter, when well mounted, dashes at the herd and chooses an individual which he endeavours to separate from the rest.

If he succeeds he contrives to keep him apart by the proper management of his horse though going at full speed.