had guns, but they were well armed with their
famous bows and arrows. About two miles away from our party they began
the attack on the opposite side of the herd. The result was that as the
frightened animals came thundering on before their dreaded foes the boys
had a splendid view of the whole scene. For a time it looked as though
they might be involved in the mass of terrified animals, as the slope up
toward them was very gradual and they were in the direct line of the
rush. However, Baptiste and others, who well knew how to meet such an
emergency, quickly bunched the party together, and had all the guns
fired off in quick succession. This speedily parted the oncoming herd,
and so they in two divisions thundered by on the right and left, with
their merciless pursuers on their flanks and in the rear, rapidly
thinning their numbers.

It was a most exciting scene, and one to a genuine sportsman that was
worth many a day's travel to see. The boys were wild to plunge into the
fray, especially when the great buffaloes went galloping by not two
hundred yards on each side of them; but their horses, although excited,
were untrained for such sport, and in all probability if started off at
full speed would soon have stumbled into some badger's hole or prairie
dog's nest, and thus send their riders over their heads. So Baptiste
wisely restrained their ardour. The next day our party visited the
village of these noted warriors of the plains.

St. Paul at length was reached. Here passage was secured in a flat-
bottomed steamer, with its great wheel at the stern. Down to St. Croix,
on the Mississippi, in this they voyaged. Then across the State of
Wisconsin to Milwaukee they travelled by railroad. At this city they
secured passage in a steam propeller to Montreal. The trip through
Lakes Michigan, Huron, St. Chair, and Erie was very delightful. In the
Canal the boys were much interested as they entered into the series of
locks, by which great vessels go up and down the great hillside. On
they steamed through the beautiful Lake Ontario. Then out into the
great St. Lawrence River they glided. The Thousand Islands seemed like
fairyland. The rapids, down which they plunged with the speed of an
express train, very much excited and delighted them. Toward the evening
of the fifth day from Milwaukee the towers and steeples of Montreal
became visible, with its splendid mountain in the rear. Soon they were
alongside of one o