Here, too, between the two Saskatchewans, they saw herds of bison on the plains grazing like English cattle.

But they also found elk (moose), wapiti or red deer, hares, grouse, geese, and ducks.

He records in his journal: "I went with the young men a-buffalo-hunting, all armed with bows and arrows; killed several; fine sport.

We beat them about, lodging twenty arrows in one beast.

So expert were the natives that they will take the arrows out of the buffalo when they are foaming and raging with pain and tearing up the ground with their feet and horns until they fall down." The Amerindians killed far more of these splendid beasts than they could eat, and from these carcasses they merely took the tongues and a few choice pieces, leaving the remainder to the wolves and the grizzly bears.
At last they arrived at the temporary village of the Blackfeet.