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Each bowsman carried a long brass-bound forty-five "trade-gun," warranted to kill up to ten yards. "It's surely a nifty outfit!" commented Sam, half admiringly. A half dozen of the younger men were landed. At once they disappeared in the underbrush. Although the two white men strained their keen senses they were unable to distinguish by sight or sound the progress of the party through the bushes.
I believe he's some sort of friend or kin of that Jingoss, an' he wants to make sure that we're after him." "Why don't he just ambush us, then, an' be done with it?" asked Dick. "Two to one," surmised Bolton, laconically. "He's only got a trade-gun one shot. But more likely he thinks it ain't going to do him much good to lay us out. More men would be sent.
Crooked Nose raised the rifle, sighted steadily at the shoulder, low down, and pulled the trigger. A sharp click alone answered his intention. Accustomed only to the old trade-gun, he had neglected to throw down and back the lever which should lift the cartridge from the magazine. Instantly the caribou snorted aloud and crashed noisily away.
"Oh, makwá, our little brother," he said, "we come to you not in anger, nor in disrespect. We come to do you a kindness. Here is hunger and cold and enemies. In the Afterland is only happiness. So if we shoot you, oh makwá, our little brother, be not angry with us." He raised his trade-gun and pulled the trigger.
Another had stated, that on the sea-coast the natives were afraid to fire a trade-gun. In the West Indian commerce two hundred and forty thousand tons of shipping were stated to be employed. But here deception intruded itself again.
Another had stated, that on the sea-coast the natives were afraid to fire a trade-gun. In the West Indian commerce, two hundred and forty thousand tons of shipping were stated to be employed. But here deception intruded itself again.
"My brothers seek the Ojibway, Jingoss. They will take him to Conjuror's House. But Jingoss knows that my brothers come. He has been told by Ah-tek. He leaves the next sun. He is to travel to the west, to Peace River. Now his camp is five hours to the north. I know where it is. Jingoss has three dogs. He has much meat. He has no gun but the trade-gun. I have learned this.
A scattering volley broke from the other canoes and from the young men concealed in the bushes. Now a trade-gun is a gun meant to trade. It is a section of what looks to be gas-pipe, bound by brass bands to a long, clumsy, wooden stick that extends within an inch of the end of the barrel. It is supposed to shoot ball or shot.
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