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There they smoked and passed the pipe. The squaws brought kettles of buffalo-meat, and the eager youngsters crowded the door until a camp-soldier stood in the way to bar them back. The subchiefs sat in bronze calm, with their robes drawn in all dignity about them. When all was ready, Mr.
He seemed alarmed at this present, and sent for a robe and a quantity of buffalo-meat, which he gave to Captain Clark, and requested him to take back the medal; for he knew that all white people were 'medicine, and was afraid of the medal, or of anything else which the white people gave to the Indians.
He saw a Buffalo and went to kill him. The Lion ate all of the Buffalo-meat he wanted, and then went down to the lake for a drink. As the Lion turned to go toward his den for a nap, he came upon a hungry Wolf. The Wolf had no chance to get away, so he threw himself at the Lion's feet. "What do you want?" the Lion asked. "O Lion, let me be your servant," said the Wolf.
After a hard morning's work each one would gather sticks, make a fire, and they would have their dinner of vegetables, rice, and pork or buffalo-meat. Then there were oysters, taken fresh off the rocks, to add to their bill of fare. At five in the afternoon, when the strain of study was beginning to tell, they would vary the program.
They therefore busied themselves, until a late hour, in preparing as much broiled buffalo-meat as would last them for several days. It was near midnight before they thought of retiring to rest. As they had done upon like occasions before, it was agreed that one should keep watch so as to keep off the wolves from the meat while the other two slept.
As fast as we-alls peels a buffalo, we rolls his carcass down hill into Salt Lake, an' what do you-alls reckons takes place? The water's that briny, it pickles said buffalo-meat plumb through, an' every year after, when Bridger an' me is back thar we're trappin' an' huntin' them times, all we has to do is haul one of them twenty thousand pickled buffalos ashore an' eat him.
They understood the movements of their foes, for they were of kindred nature with their own. Their buffalo-meat was almost gone, and it was dangerous to kill game now for fear of attracting the ravens, which would circle overhead and be seen from the camp. These might attract an investigation from idle and adventurous boys and betray them.
Hobbs had some of the desired article, and he was not long in handing it over to his newly found friend. Both of the boys were escorted to the temporary camp of the savages, but the original number of their captors was increased to over a thousand before they arrived there. They were supplied with some dried buffalo-meat, and then taken to the lodge of Old Wolf, the head chief of the tribe.
This, as we had been already assured, was the best mode of keeping wolves at a distance from any object, and the hunter, when wolves are near, often avails himself of it to protect the venison or buffalo-meat which he is obliged to leave behind him. The guide having rigged his "scare wolf," mounted his old mare, and again joined us, muttering his satisfaction as he rode along.
The hunter races must disappear, and give place to the more useful agriculturist. The prairies are wide vast expanses of that singular formation must remain in their primitive wildness, at least for ages, and these will still be a safe range for the buffalo. After a breakfast of fresh buffalo-meat we took the road in high spirits. The long-expected sport would soon come off.
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