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CHAPTER X
Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear
How he will shake me up.
--As you like it.
It is well known, that even long before the immense regions of
Louisiana changed their masters for the second, and, as it is to be
hoped, for the last time, its unguarded territory was by no means safe
from the inroads of white adventurers. The semi-barbarous hunters from
the Canadas, the same description of population, a little more
enlightened, from the States, and the metiffs or half-breeds, who
claimed to be ranked in the class of white men, were scattered among
the different Indian tribes, or gleaned a scanty livelihood in
solitude, amid the haunts of the beaver and the bison; or, to adopt
the popular nomenclature of the country of the buffaloe.[*]
[*] In addition to the scientific distinctions which mark the two
species, it may be added, with due deference to Dr. Battius, that a
much more important particular is the fact, that while the former
of these animals is delicious and nourishing food, the latter is
scarcely edible.


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