 | Henry Youle Hind, Canada. Provincial Secretary's Office - Assiniboine River - 1859 - 252 pages
...built. Within a circular fence 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed...together in all the forced attitudes of violent death. Some lay on their backs, with eyes starting from their heads, and tongue thrust out through clotted... | |
 | Henry Youle Hind - Assiniboine River (Sask. and Man.) - 1860 - 556 pages
...built. Within a circular fence 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed...together in all the forced attitudes of violent death. Some lay on their backs, with eyes starting from their heads, and tongue thrust out through clotted... | |
 | James Greenwood - Anthropology - 1863 - 438 pages
...built. Within a circular fence, 1 30 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed...in every conceivable position over two hundred dead buffaloes After the first 'run,' ten days before our arrival, the Indians had driven about three hundred... | |
 | James Greenwood - Conduct of life - 1863 - 478 pages
...built. Within a circular fence, 130 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed...in every conceivable position over two hundred dead buffaloes After the first 'run,' ten days before our arrival, the Indians had driven about three hundred... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1869 - 588 pages
...built. Within a circular fence, 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed in every conceivable position, over 200 dead buffalo. From old bulls to calves of three months old, animals of every age were huddled together... | |
 | United States National Museum - Science - 1889 - 884 pages
...lay, tossed in every conceivable position, over two hundred dead buffalo. [The exact number was 240.] From old bulls to calves of three months' old, animals...together in all the forced attitudes of violent death. Some lay on their backs, with eyes starting from their heads and tongue thrust out through clotted... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1889 - 870 pages
...over two hundred dead buffalo. [The exact number was 240.] From old bulls to calves of three mouths' old, animals of every age were huddled together in all the forced attitudes of violent death. Some lay on their backs, with eyes starting from their heads and tongue thrust out through clotted... | |
 | George McKinnon Wrong, Hugh Hornby Langton, William Stewart Wallace - Canada - 1911 - 248 pages
...circular fence one hundred and twenty feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed...attitudes of violent death. The Indians looked upon the scene with evident delight, and told how such and such a bull or cow had exhibited feats of wonderful... | |
 | D. W. Oates - Canada - 1914 - 224 pages
...circular fence one hundred and twenty feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed...attitudes of violent death. The Indians looked upon the scene with evident delight, and told how such and such a bull or cow had exhibited feats of wonderful... | |
 | George Francis Scott Elliot - Anthropology - 1919 - 246 pages
...the bellowing of the cows, and the piteous moaning of the calves. . . . " Within the circular fence lay, tossed in every conceivable position, over two...together in all the forced attitudes of violent death." But the Red Indian, when once he had a trained horse to ride, scarcely required to build a pound. Large... | |
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A sight most horrible and disgusting broke upon us as we ascended a sand dune overhanging the little dell in which the pound was built. Within a circular fence 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced... 
