ss night.

The Navajo Indian's method of hunting antelope was to strew cedar
branches or other brush in the form of a very long wing to a corral,
lying loose and flat on the ground. The antelope on being driven against
it will never cross an obstruction of such a nature, though it only be
a foot high, but will continue to run along it and so be finally driven
into the corral.

And antelope are such inquisitive animals! On the Staked Plains of New
Mexico the Mexicans approach them by dressing themselves up in any
ridiculous sort of fashion, so as least to resemble a human being. In
this way they would not approach the antelope, but the antelope would
approach them, curious to find out the nature of such an unusual
monstrosity. Antelope, there, were still very plentiful, and even in my
own little pasture there was a band of some 300 head. Only at certain
times of the year did they bunch up together; at other times they,
though still present, were hardly noticeable.

I would like to make note of the curious misnaming of wild animals in
North America. Thus, the antelope or pronghorn is not a true antelope,
the buffalo is not a buffalo, the Rocky Mountain goat is not a goat, and
the elk is not an elk. By the same token the well-known "American aloe,"
or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave.

While in Arizona I used to carry in a saddle pocket a small sketch-book
and pencil, and on finding one of the beautiful wild flowers the Rocky
Mountains are so famous for, that is, a new kind, I would at once get
down and take a sketch of it, with notes as to colour, etc. The boys
were at first a bit surprised, and no doubt wondered how easily an
apparent idiot could amuse himself. I was considerably surprised myself
once when busy sketching on the banks of a brawling stream in the
mountains. A sudden grunt as of a bear at my elbow nearly scared me into
the river. On turning round, there was an armed Apache brave standing
close behind me; but he was only one of a hunting party. What sentiment
that grunt expressed I never learnt.

It is remarkable how a range or tract of country that has been
overstocked or over-grazed will rapidly produce an entirely new flora,
of a class repugnant to the palate of cattle and horses. In this way our
mountain range in particular, when in course of a very few years it
became eaten out, quickly decked itself in a gorgeous robe of brilliant
blossoms; weeds we called them, and weeds no doubt they