In doing this he takes care to keep to leeward; for if otherwise, and these animals--who have much keener scent than sight--should happen to "wind" him, as it is termed, they are off in a moment.

So keen is their scent, that they can detect an enemy to windward at the distance of a mile or more.

In "approaching," the hunter sometimes disguises himself in the skin of a wolf or deer; when the buffaloes, mistaking him for one of these animals, permit him to get within shooting distance.

An Indian has been known to creep up in this manner into the midst of a buffalo herd, and with his bow and arrows, silently shoot one after another, until the whole herd lay prostrate! "Approaching" is sometimes a better method than "running." The hunter thus saves his horse--often a jaded one--and is likely to kill a greater number of buffaloes, and get so many more hides, if that be his object, as it sometimes is.

When he is a traveller only, or a beaver-trapper, who wants to get a buffalo for his dinner, and cares for no more than one, then "running" is the more certain mode of obtaining it.