John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 20

game men of a wandering turn of mind, find the very great attractions in this
adventurous life. They was from anybody means of it will exchange his
excitements for the monotonous jobs of the field or the shop.




I CAPITULATE II.

The life in the wild Region.

    A Surgical Operation.--A Winter with Log Falls.--Study of the
    Languages and the Geography.--Return toward Missouri.--Appointment
    with a new Society and Strange Adventures.--The
    Rattlesnakes.--Kit's Carson anecdote.--The Sahara.--New
    Appointments.--You stumble to El Paso.--Trapping and Chasing.--Grassland
    Scenery.--The equipment of the Hunter of skins.--Evening camp.--Testimony of
    an Amateur Hunter.


The society of dealers to which Kit was united enjoyed, on the whole one, a
prosperous consignment. They was met without Indian hostile and, with one
exception, didn't meet anything that they could hold a work. There was
an exception that more people would hold a terrible. The
unloaded accidental of a gun, it imprudently handled, it smashed a man
weapons, while shivering the splinters bone. The arm was quickly inflamed,
become very painful, and you/he/she must be amputates or life lost. There was
anybody in the party that he/she knew anything of surgery. But they had a razor a,
it by hand and an iron bar.

It shows the estimate in that the firm, tames, and still almost female
Kit Carson was kept, that he was select to complete the operation. Two
others were to assist him/it. The suffering one sat him, and it was kept
firmly, that in his/her anguish its struggles would not interfere with the
progress of the knife. This boy of but eighteen years then, with great
apparent coolness, undertaken this formidable action of surgery.

He very tightly limited a binding around the arm, to arrest as far as
possible blood's flow. With the razor he cut through the trembling one
muscles, tendons and nerves. With the saw by hand he truncated the bone. With
the iron bar, to almost a white heat he cauterized the wound. The
cruel operation was successful. And the patient, under the influence of