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Updated: June 10, 2025


Departure from Fort Osage Modes of transportation Pack- horses Wagons Walker and Cerre; their characters Buoyant feelings on launching upon the prairies Wild equipments of the trappers Their gambols and antics Difference of character between the American and French trappers Agency of the Kansas General Clarke White Plume, the Kansas chief Night scene in a trader's camp Colloquy between White Plume and the captain Bee-hunters Their expeditions Their feuds with the Indians Bargaining talent of White Plume

It is better to kill the bee-hunter and his squaw while we can, that there may be no more such medicine bee-hunters to frighten us Injins. If one bee-hunter can do so much harm, what would a tribe of bee-hunters do? I do not want to see any more. It is a dangerous thing to know how to talk with bees. It is best that no one should have that power.

Then we are impatient of so public a life and planet, and run hither and thither for nooks and secrets. The imagination delights in the woodcraft of Indians, trappers, and bee-hunters. We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.

In general, the bee-hunters keep back till August, for they think it better to commence work when the creatures" this word Ben pronounced as accurately as if brought up at St. James's, making it neither "creatur'" nor "creatOOre" "to commence work when the creatures have had time to fill up, after winter's feed.

Excitement of Elephant-shooting An Unexpected Visitor A Long Run with a Buck Hard Work Rewarded A Glorious Bay End of a Hard Day's Work Bee-hunters Disasters of Elk-hunting Bran Wounded 'Old Smut's' Buck Boar at Hackgalla Death of 'Old Smut' Scenery from the Perewelle Mountains Diabolical Death of 'Merriman' Scene of the Murder.

In this case it was a Dyak who became their conductor one of those who follow the business of bee-hunters; and who, from the very nature of their calling, are often brought into contact with the bears as well as the bees.

Hence, when I go bee-hunting, I prefer to get to windward of the woods in which the swarm is supposed to have taken refuge. Bees, like the milkman, like to be near a spring. They do water their honey, especially in a dry time. The liquid is then of course thicker and sweeter, and will bear diluting. Hence, old bee-hunters look for bee-trees along creeks and near spring runs in the woods.

The appearance of the bee-hunters had warned us that there were natives about, and we had been cautioned against trusting them. We heard that they had at different times murdered a number of unfortunate hut-keepers and shepherds up the country, so that we were inclined to form very unfavourable opinions of the aborigines. Toby, to be sure, was faithful enough, but then he was semi-civilised.

Bees and honey now became the topic of conversation; and not a sentence was uttered for some minutes that did not contain an allusion to bees or bees' nests, or bee-trees, or bee-hunters, or honey. "We all scattered among the flowers to assure ourselves that it really was a bee, and not some rascally wasp that had wounded our little Mary.

When looking over an immense tract of forest from some elevated point, the thin blue lines of smoke may be seen rising in many directions, marking the sites of the bee-hunters fires. Their method of taking the honey is simple enough. The bees' nests hang from the boughs of the trees, and a man ascends with a torch of green leaves, which creates a dense smoke.

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