Not Long Afterwards, Three Other
Straggling Members Of The Main Expedition Made Their Appearance.
These Were Carson, St. Michael, And Pierre Delaunay, Three Of The
Trappers Who, In Company With Pierre Detaye, Had Been Left Among
The Mountains By Mr. Hunt, To Trap Beaver, In The Preceding Month
Of September.
They had departed from the main body well armed and
provided, with horses to ride, and horses to carry the peltries
they were to collect.
They came wandering into the Snake camp as
ragged and destitute as their predecessors. It appears that they
had finished their trapping, and were making their way in the
spring to the Missouri, when they were met and attacked by a
powerful band of the all-pervading Crows. They made a desperate
resistance, and killed seven of the savages, but were overpowered
by numbers. Pierre Detaye was slain, the rest were robbed of
horses and effects, and obliged to turn back, when they fell in
with their old companions as already mentioned.
We should observe, that at the heels of Pierre Delaunay came
draggling an Indian wife, whom he had picked up in his
wanderings; having grown weary of celibacy among the savages.
The whole seven of this forlorn fraternity of adventurers, thus
accidentally congregated on the banks of Snake River, were making
arrangements once more to cross the mountains, when some Indian
scouts brought word of the approach of the little band headed by
John Reed.
The latter, having heard the several stories of these wanderers,
took them all into his party, and set out for the Caldron Linn,
to clear out two or three of the caches which had not been
revealed to the Indians.
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