bois de vache

During this halt they lit a bois de vache fire, at which they cooked their breakfast, and then set out again.

Stopping near its bank, we gathered bois de vache, and made a meal of buffalo meat.

The most commonly used article is the dry dung of buffaloes, known to the Canadian voyageurs as bois de vache.

The wild sage begins to make its appearance, and timber is so scarce that we generally made our fires of the bois de vache.

There was no timber of any kind on the river, but good fires were made of drift wood, aided by the bois de vache.