Catlin's North American Indian portfolio. : Hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and prairies of America. : From drawings and notes of the author, made during eight years' travel amongst forty-eight of the wildest and most remote tribes of savages in North America. |
PLATE No. 16. |
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PLATE No. 16.
WOUNDED BUFFALO BULL.
The reader has here, a striking illustration of the deadly effects of the Indian's arrow, and also an emphatic representation of one of the largest specimens of the buffalo
bull, shot through the heart, at his last halt; his legs bending under his great weight, and his huge carcase ready to tumble down from loss of blood, which is pouring from his
nostrils and mouth, as well as from the wounds in his side. Not only shot, but pinioned, by the arrows of the hunter (who has already counted him amongst his victims and
passed on to claim others of the throng), the bull is thus left to struggle with death; and in that struggle, hobbles and reels along but a brief distance, wheezing and sighing
through streams of frothy blood until he sinks upon his haunches, where he invariably rests for a few moments, bracing up with his fore legs, the noblest object of pity, until his
last deep-drawn breath is gushed out, when he falls, and rolls in death, without a kick or struggle.
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