Mexican Boundary Commission--John Russell Bartlett--An ethnologist's hunting-ground--Panic among horses and teamsters--The cause--A remarkable sight--A bison-surround--Wanton carnage--Approach of the Missouris--The presents--The delicate part of the bison--Grave warnings--Breakdown of the waggon--The Apaches--"Mangus Colorado"--The attack on the inn--The Apaches put to flight 216 CHAPTER XVIII A JOURNEY TO THE GRAN CHACO The Gran Chaco of Western Paraguay--Charles Blachford Mansfield--Up the Para--The madman's cold dip--Corrientes--Finding canoemen--The Indians--A dangerous landing-place--Pitching the camp--Supper--_Maté_--A jaguar--Game easily obtained--Nearing Asuncion--An inexplicable scare--Hunting on the Chaco 226 CHAPTER XIX AMONG THE SERIS OF MEXICO Gustav Ferdinand von Tempsky--A risky journey--A tropical thunderstorm--A warm reception for the travellers--Mistaken for Indians--The road to Durango--"They have burnt another village!"--Dr. Steel as leader--Von Tempsky's "capture"--The Mexican lancers--A scraggy army--Tracking the redskins-- Sudden appearance of three hundred Indians--Working with awkward tools--The fight--Reinforced by Yankees 239 CHAPTER XX A HOLIDAY AMONG THE OJIBEWAS The Algonquin family--Charles Richard Weld--A holiday tour in Southern Canada--A coach ride over the prairie--Indian bullies--Getting rid of them--A rattlesnake hunt--Extraordinary method of snake-killing--Ojibewa guides--Rapid-shooting without warning--English strangers--Major Strickland's farm--Ojibewas as indoor and outdoor servants--A great prong-buck hunt--Hunting methods of the Ojibewas--The battue 252 CHAPTER XXI CHIPPEWYANS AND COLUMBIAN GOLD-DIGGERS The Columbian gold find of 1857--H.M.S. _Plumper's_ task--Lieut. Mayne, R.N.--The Yale rising--Up the Fraser in a pinnace--Coming in at the end--The Indians' complaint--Night march of the bluejackets--Excitement of the Indian guides--Glee turned to fear--Reaching the scene of disorder--The miners' outpost--An awful sight--Quelling the mob--Struggle of the Indians to save their wigwams from the rioters--Disarming the diggers--The Chippewyan reinforcement--The lieutenant in an awkward dilemma--The palaver--An anxious night 264 CHAPTER XXII THE CHIPPEWYANS OF THE COLUMBIAN MOUNTAINS