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Some of the Indians used their guns as skillfully as the white men , but when powder and ball were scarce they fell back upon their bows and arrows , and it was astonishing what large game they secured . Once during the winter Dave went out with White Buffalo , on a hunt which lasted three days . They took their bags full of provisions , and the Indian chief led the way across the Ohio and into the depths of the forest , which was entirely new to the youth . `` White Buffalo knows the deer are plentiful here , '' said the Indian , and so it proved , for before noon they struck the trail of some of the animals , and by nightfall had laid a large buck and his mate low . Then they took up the trail of some other animals and were equally successful . The evening of the second day 's hunt found the pair in the vicinity of an Indian village called Shilagum , standing not far from where the Muskingum River flowed into the Ohio . It was only a small place , but noted among the Shawanoes as the abode of a great medicine man named Paka-Lokalla , or Medicine-of-the-Clouds .