The English Sportsman in the Western Praries

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Hurt & Blackett, 1861 - 431 σελίδες
"In 1859, the Western United States was still huge, wild, and open. Englishman Grantley Berkeley decided to have a hunt there and so embarked on an adventure very few of his countrymen would ever even contemplate. Enlisting the services of Americans, this plucky Old Countryman got to live out his fantasy of adventure on the high plains. Camping in the open, hunting enormous herds of buffalo, shooting other game and living the life. And he manages to tell the tale with great humor (humour) and keen observation of American social life, habits, and scenery."--Amazon.com.
 

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Σελίδα 377 - The greater portion of these bones had been more or less burned by fire. The fire had extended but a few feet beyond the space occupied by the animal before its destruction, and there was more than sufficient evidence on the spot that the fire had not been an accidental one, but on the contrary, that it had been kindled by human agency, and, according to all appearance, with the design of killing the huge creature, which had been found mired in the mud, and in an entirely helpless condition.
Σελίδα 381 - The two arrow-heads found with the bones " were in such a position as to furnish evidence still more conclusive, perhaps, than in the other case, of their being of equal, if not older date, than the bones themselves ; for, besides that they were found in a layer of vegetable...
Σελίδα 378 - ... smaller pieces of charred wood and burnt bones, together with bones belonging to the spine, ribs and other parts of the body, which had been more or less injured by the fire. " The fire appeared to have been most destructive around the head of the animal. Some small remains of the head were left unconsumed, but enough to show that they belonged to the mastodon.
Σελίδα 378 - All the bones which had not been burned by the fire had kept their original position, standing upright, and apparently quite undisturbed in the clay; whereas those portions which had been extended above the surface had been partially consumed by the fire, and the surface of the clay was covered, as far as...
Σελίδα 378 - ... must have been in a plastic condition, being now a grayish colored clay. All the bones which had not been burned by the fire had kept their original position, standing upright, and apparently quite undisturbed in the clay; whereas those portions which had been extended above the surface had...
Σελίδα 379 - It seemed that the burning of the victim and the hurling of rocks at it, had not satisfied the destroyers, for I found also among the ashes, bones, and rocks, several arrow-heads, a stone spear-head, and some stone axes...
Σελίδα 381 - ... which was covered by twenty feet in thickness of alternate layers of sand, clay, and gravel, one of the arrow-heads lay underneath the thigh-bone of the skeleton, the bone actually resting in contact upon it, so that it could not have been brought thither after the deposit of the bone," a fact which he was careful thoroughly to investigate.
Σελίδα 381 - About one year after this excavation, Dr. Koch found at another place in Benton County, Missouri, in the bottom of the Pomme de Terre River, about ten miles above its junction with the Osage, several stone arrowheads mingled with the bones of a nearly entire skeleton of the Missourium. The two arrow-heads found with the bones — " were,
Σελίδα 378 - I found, as well those parts of the bones untouched by the fire, as those which were more or less injured by it, or in part consumed ; for I found the fore and hind legs of the animal in a perpendicular position in the clay with the toes attached to the feet, just in the manner in which they were when life departed from the body.
Σελίδα 378 - ... which had been more or less injured by the fire. " The fire appeared to have been most destructive around the head of the animal. Some small remains of the head were left unconsumed, but enough to show that they belonged to the mastodon. There were also found, mingled with these ashes and bones, and partly protruding out of them, a large number of broken pieces of rock, which had evidently been carried thither from the shore of the Bourbeuse River, to be hurled at the animal by his destroyers,...

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