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He wants white men for his allies. He has a purpose." "Will the Red-Hand declare his purpose?" "Freely. His people have taken, many fire-weapons. See! they are yonder in the hands of his braves, who know not how to use them. Our enemies the Utahs have been taught by the white hunters; and the ranks of the Arapaho warriors are thinned by their deadly bullets.
It was necessary, also, that Kit Carson should be on the ground in case the red men were overtaken, in order to ascertain whether, or no, the Utahs were mixed up with the operations of the Apaches.
In past times, Utahs have been more partial to the pale-faces than most other tribes of North Americans; and in their territory many of the celebrated trapper-stations, or "rendezvous," are situated. At times, mutual provocations have led to dire encounters; and then are the Utahs to be dreaded more, perhaps, than any other Indians.
The execution of the movement was soon entered upon. Near the place where I had passed the last hours of the night, a side ravine which, in the darkness I had not observed sloped up out of the gorge. By canons and deep defiles the whole face of the country was cut up in this bi-pinnate fashion every pass of it being well-known to the Utahs.
On one occasion it was attacked by the hostile Utahs and Apaches, who killed and carried off as prisoners a total of sixteen settlers. Among the slain was a Canadian who fought so skillfully and desperately before he was dispatched, that he killed three of his assailants.
My reply to the third will require more words; and before giving it, I shall answer the fourth by saying that the girl was taken from the Rapahoes by Don Jose." "Don Jose who is Don Jose?" "Oh! perhaps you would know him by his American name Oaquer?" "Walker, the celebrated trapper? Joe Walker?" "The same, amigo. Oaquara, the Utahs pronounce it.
But the white man's music was not the only sign of civilised life to be observed among the tents of the Utahs.
Throughout all the valleys south of Salt Lake City are the numerous bands of the great tribe of Utahs. Still farther south are the Pyides. The Snakes are superior in condition to any of the others; for, during a portion of the year, they have access to the buffalo, which have not crossed the Wahsatch Range into the Great Basin, within the recollection of the oldest trapper.
I was face to face with the most noted war-chief of America: whose name, though new to me, was at that moment dreaded from Oregon to Arispe, from the banks of the Rio Bravo to the sierras of Alta California. It was Walker the war-chief of the Utahs the friend of the celebrated trapper, whose name he had adopted; and which, by the modification of Utah orthoepy, had become Wa-ka-ra.
The Mexican had already conceived an instinctive antipathy towards the Mormon "hereticos;" and we might rely upon his fidelity to our cause. The scheme exactly suited the eccentric character of this singular man; and he entered upon his duties con amore, and at once. By his assistance we soon procured the required costumes and pigments; but neither were to be "put on" in the presence of the Utahs.
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