Part 18

Drought, buffaloes driven from Mississippi by, 121.

Duffel, the, defined, 39.

Duke of Bedford, live musk-ox owned by, 103.

Dunbar, William, 257, 259.

Dung of musk-ox, 100.

Earl of Lonsdale, musk-ox horns owned by, 99-100.

Elk [Cervus canadensis], 120. Slaughter of, at Jackson’s Hole, Ky., 273.

Elk-hunting on horses, 197.

Equipment for Barren Ground expedition, 53-54.

Europe, fossil remains of musk-oxen found in, 85. Specimens (live) of musk-ox in, 103.

Ewe and lamb, Wister’s experience with, 210-222.

Feeding, problem of, in Barren Grounds, 41-42.

Firth, John, 91.

Flesh of musk-oxen, 100-103.

Flowers in the Barren Grounds, 62.

Fort Resolution, 39, 50.

Fossil remains of musk-oxen, 85.

Franz Josef Land, musk-oxen unknown in, 93.

Fremont, J. C., on western range of buffaloes, 125.

Fur, color of, of musk-oxen, 80, 104.

Gass, 175, 179, 256.

Gaudet, Hudson’s Bay Company post factor, 53.

Goat, relation between sheep and, 182. See White goat.

Grease, craving for, in the North, 47.

Great Lakes northern boundary of buffalo range, 121.

Greenland, musk-oxen in, 51, 79-80, 85.

Green River, buffaloes found on tributaries of, 125.

Grinnell Land, fossil remains of musk-oxen in, 85. Musk-oxen of, 79-80.