Now the weather was warm; the grass was sprouting, and I noticed a flock of wild geese going northward.
The plains of San Diego used to swarm with antelopes, and even at the time of my visit herds of them could be seen now and then.

One old hunter near Casas Grandes resorted to an ingenious device for decoying them.

He disguised himself as an antelope, by means of a cloak of cotton cloth (manta) painted to resemble the colouring of the animal.

This covered his body, arms, and legs.

On his head he placed the antlers of a stag, and by creeping on all fours he could approach the antelopes quite closely and thus successfully shoot them.