It could be nothing else, all believed, than the object of their long wild hunt--a _white buffalo_.

All three huzzaed loudly, and for a moment forgot the peril of their position.

Their shouts started the grizzly monster below, who, lazily rising to his feet, once more commenced growling and shuffling about among the trees.

The sight of him soon restored the hunters to a sense of the fearful realities that surrounded them..