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It proved to be a strong party of Sciatogas and Tusche-pas. There were thirty-four lodges, comfortably constructed of mats; the Indians, too, were better clothed than any of the wandering bands they had hitherto met on this side of the Rocky Mountains. Indeed, they were as well clad as the generality of the wild hunter tribes.
Two or three days were exhausted in obtaining information about the route, and what time it would take to get to the Sciatogas, a hospitable tribe on the west of the mountains, represented as having many horses. The replies were various, but concurred in saying that the distance was great, and would occupy from seventeen to twenty-one nights. Mr.
These, he was told, were the last Snakes he would meet with, and that he would soon come to a nation called Sciatogas. Forward then did he proceed on his tedious journey, which, at every step, grew more painful. The road continued for two days through narrow defiles, where they were repeatedly obliged to unload the horses.
The Indians of the lodges pointed out a distant gap through which they must pass in traversing the ridge of mountains. They assured them that they would be but little incommoded by snow, and in three days would arrive among the Sciatogas. Mr. Hunt, however, had been so frequently deceived by Indian accounts of routes and distances, that he gave but little faith to this information.
It was now five days since they had left the lodges of the Shoshonies, during which they had come about sixty miles, and their guide assured them that in the course of the next day they would see the Sciatogas. On the following morning, therefore, they pushed forward with eagerness, and soon fell upon a stream which led them through a deep narrow defile, between stupendous ridges.
Wayworn Travellers An Increase of the Dorion Family. A Camp of Shoshonies. A New-Year Festival Among the Snakes. A Wintry March Through the Mountains. A Sunny Prospect, and Milder Climate. Indian Horse-Tracks. Grassy Valleys. A Camp of Sciatogas. Joy of the Travellers.-Dangers of Abundance. Habits of the Sciatogas. Fate of Carriere. The Umatilla. Arrival at the Banks of the Columbia.
Hunt and his followers had arrived after their painful struggle through the Blue Mountains, and experienced such a kind relief in the friendly camp of the Sciatogas. That range of Blue Mountains now extended in the distance before them; they were the same among which poor Michael Carriere had perished.
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