The Red Man's Revenge a Tale Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. SOME OP THE SHADOWS OF A BUFFALO-HUNTER'S LIFE. IN order to give the women time to prepare some pemmican for them, Victor Eavenshaw and his companions agreed to spend another day " Hk FELL PIERCED BY A SHOWER OF ARROWS." -- Page 67. with the hunters, and again, as a matter of course, followed them to the chase. The same wild pursuit, accompanied by accidents, serious and serio-comic, took place, and success again attended the hunt, but the day did not end so happily, owing to an event which filled the camp with great anxiety. It happened at the close of the day. The men were dropping into camp by twos and threes, wearied with hard work, more or less covered with dust and blood, and laden with buffalo tongues. Carts, also, were constantly coming in, filled with meat. The women were busy cutting up and drying the meat in the sun, or over a slow fire, melting down fat, pounding the dried meat with stones, and manufacturing bags out of the raw hides. Chatting and merry laughter resounded on all sides, for pemmican and bales of dried meat meant money, and they were coining it fast. Towards sunset a band of several hunters appeared on the ridge in front of the camp, and came careering gaily towards it. Baptiste Warder, the mighty captain, led. Victor, Ian, Eollin, Winklemann, Flett, Mowat, and others followed. They dashed into camp like a whirlwind, and sprang from their steeds, evidently well pleased with the success of the day. " Had splendid sport," said Victor, with glittering eyes, to one of the subordinate captains, who addressed him. " I killed ten animals myself, and Ian Macdonal...« less