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The woods seemed full of maddened, frightened cattle, and Emsden's horse was frantically galloping after the cavalcade of hunters and their pack-train, all the animals more or less beyond the control of the men. He felt it an ill chance that left him thus alone and afoot in this dense wilderness, several days' travel from the station.
Turning about, he descended to the steamboat camp and called that place the head of navigation, not that he did not believe a steamer might ascend, light, through Black Canyon, but he considered it impracticable. Running now down-stream in the Explorer, the expected pack-train was encountered at the foot of Pyramid Canyon, and a welcome addition was made to the supplies.
Having surveyed the camp, he moved around among the trees and brushwood in the vicinity. He soon found the body of an Indian who had belonged to the pack-train party, and then another Indian who looked to be an enemy. The latter had his face painted in peculiar wavy streaks which the trader had seen twice before. "The Wanderers!" he muttered. "I half suspected it might be so.
Dale nodded to the girls, and, turning his horse, he drove the pack-train before him up the open space between the stream and the wooded slope. Roy stepped off his horse with that single action which appeared such a feat to Helen. "Guess I'd better cinch up," he said, as he threw a stirrup up over the pommel of his saddle. "You girls are goin' to see wild country."
The Pack-train had spurred to the rescue of a small party of sick and footsore, making their way to garrison. "Why that was the Pony Pack Massacre!" Cairns exclaimed. "I heard about it one of the worst affairs we've had over here and you saw it?" "I wish I hadn't," Bedient answered. "The little party of Americans were down when I first saw them.
From here to the Kanab was ten miles, and we sailed along with lightened hearts, knowing that our sadly depleted and half-ruined stock of rations would soon be replenished, and that mail from the world would be delivered by the pack-train we expected to find there.
We traded for enough furs in one day to load our entire pack-train of thirty-two horses. The next morning we loaded up our furs and pulled out, telling the chief that we would be back in one moon meaning in their language, one month which would keep us busy, it being about four hundred miles to Bent's Fort, and as we were heavily loaded we would have to travel slow.
As she went away to the seat under the balsam she heard a sharp cry and then cheers. Evidently the grim Gulden had been both swift and successful. Presently the men came out of the cabin and began to attend to their horses and the pack-train. Pearce looked for Joan, and upon seeing her called out, "Kells wants you."
The climbing of the south wall in the early morning, the noonday stop at Hog Ranch, and the touching farewell to mounts and pack-train, the exhilarating ride to Crocker's, and the varied attractions of that fascinating resort, must be unsung. A night of mingled pleasure and rest with every want luxuriously supplied, a half-day of good coaching, and once more Yosemite the wonder of the West.
The Wyandots say there was some mistake made about Dave, and they are going to bring in, next spring, the goods they got away from Bevoir, and which were stolen from the pack-train." "I trust they keep their word," answered James Morris. "But I reckon that fifty pounds is gone for good." "I think they will keep their word," said Sanderson, who knew many of the Wyandots well.
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