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information that he ever did. There are no herbs of spontanious growth on the Prairie except the Buffalo berry this he can procure for food and he is no fisherman hence his diet is about entirely in the native state, animal. and eaten raw, we refer of course to the Dakota a generation back when the Buffalo, Deer, Elk, and Antelope were plenty. The first is extinct, the second and third almost [?] while a few of the latter still roam the plains. In the "good old days" when the Dakota thirst for blood was satisfied in a measure by the slaughter of the buffalo, the squaws and children cut the meat up into chunks and this was hung up to dry in the hot dry rairie wind which in a short time dried the meat into a condition almost like a bone. in this condition it is stored away in a par fleche, or in a Pemmican bag. to do this the dried meat is reduced to pemican by the use of a "pemican mallet" this instrument consists of a more or less round stave which is pounded and manipulated so that one face is flattened and about the middle is a groove more or less deeply cut . we give drawings of the