They were not "grizzlys." They were not wild horses neither, that was plain enough.

Buffaloes, then, they must be.
Like all who see buffaloes for the first time in their native pastures, our young hunters were filled with excitement--the more so, since to meet with these animals was the object of their expedition, of the long and perilous journey they had undertaken.
A hurried consultation followed as to how they should capture these three.

It was true that none of them was a _white_ buffalo; but no matter.

Our hunters wanted to taste buffalo-beef; and the chase after these would give them practice, which might serve them afterwards.

How, then, were they to set about it?
"Why, run them, of course," counselled the ready Francois, with the air of an experienced buffalo-hunter.
Now, there are several methods of hunting buffaloes, practised upon the prairies, both by whites and Indians.