Such was the beginning of our day's hunt.  I was completely carried away by the excitement of the chase, and was as eager to kill buffalo as any Indian amongst them.  As I had exhausted all my arrows, I had now only my spear to trust to.  Had I been dependent on my own skill, I should have been quickly overthrown, and probably gored to death; but my well-trained mustang knew far more about the matter than I did, so I let him get out of the way of any of the animals which attacked me as he thought best.