Among The
Osages, Says Captain Bonneville, When A Warrior Falls In Battle,
His Comrades, Though They May Have Fought With
Consummate valor,
and won a glorious victory, will leave their arms upon the field
of battle, and returning home with
Dejected countenances, will
halt without the encampment, and wait until the relatives of the
slain come forth and invite them to mingle again with their
people.
29.
Winter camp at the Portneuf Fine springs The Bannack
Indians Their honesty Captain Bonneville prepares for an
expedition Christmas The American Falls Wild scenery Fishing
Falls Snake Indians Scenery on the Bruneau View of volcanic
country from a mountain Powder River Shoshokoes, or Root
Diggers Their character, habits, habitations, dogs Vanity at its
last shift
IN ESTABLISHING his winter camp near the Portnenf, Captain
Bonneville had drawn off to some little distance from his Bannack
friends, to avoid all annoyance from their intimacy or
intrusions. In so doing, however, he had been obliged to take up
his quarters on the extreme edge of the flat land, where he was
encompassed with ice and snow, and had nothing better for his
horses to subsist on than wormwood. The Bannacks, on the
contrary, were encamped among fine springs of water, where there
was grass in abundance. Some of these springs gush out of the
earth in sufficient quantity to turn a mill; and furnish
beautiful streams, clear as crystal, and full of trout of a large
size, which may be seen darting about the transparent water.
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