CHAPTER TEN.
THE FOOD OF THE SILKWORM.
After leaving Bayou Crocodile, our young hunters travelled due west, over the prairies of Opelousas.

They did not expect to fall in with buffalo on these great meadows.

No.

The bison had long since forsaken the pastures of Opelousas, and gone far westward.

In his place thousands of long horned cattle roamed over these plains; but these, although wild enough, belonged to owners, and were all marked and tended by mounted herdsmen.