The Two Faithful Chiefs
Who Had Accompanied The White Men From The Headwaters Of The Streams
Now Bade Farewell To Their Friends And Allies, The Explorers.
They Bought Horses Of The Echeloots And Returned To Their Distant
Homes By Land.
Game here became more abundant, and on the twenty-sixth of October
the journal records the fact that they
Received from the Indians
a present of deer-meat, and on that day their hunters found plenty
of tracks of elk and deer in the mountains, and they brought
in five deer, four very large gray squirrels, and a grouse.
Besides these delicacies, one of the men killed in the river
a salmon-trout which was fried in bear's oil and, according to
the journal, "furnished a dish of a very delightful flavor,"
doubtless a pleasing change from the diet of dog's flesh
with which they had so recently been regaled.
Two of the Echeloot chiefs remained with the white men to guide them
on their way down the river. These were joined by seven others
of their tribe, to whom the explorers were kind and attentive.
But the visitors could not resist the temptation to pilfer from the goods
exposed to dry in the sun. Being checked in this sly business,
they became ill-humored and returned, angry, down the river.
The explorers noticed here that the Indians flattened the heads
of males as well as females. Higher up the river, only the women
and female children had flat heads.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 208 of 362
Words from 63059 to 63308
of 110166
