Below them extended a plain, dotted with innumerable herds of buffalo.

Some were lying among the herbage, others roaming in their unbounded pastures, while many were engaged in fierce contests like those already described, their low bellowings reaching the ear like the hoarse murmurs of the surf on a distant shore.
Far off in the west they descried a range of lofty mountains printing the clear horizon, some of them evidently capped with snow.

These they supposed to be the Bighorn Mountains, so called from the animal of that name, with which they abound.

They are a spur of the great Rocky chain.
The hill from whence Mr.Hunt had this prospect was, according to his computation, about two hundred and fifty miles from the Arickara village.
On returning to the camp, Mr.Hunt found some uneasiness prevailing among the Canadian voyageurs.

In straying among the thickets they had beheld tracks of grizzly bears in every direction, doubtless attracted thither by the fruit.