John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 31

the liberty for all the luxuries of the civilized life. Man is the charms
of the life of the hunter of mountain that I believe that not an example
you/he/she could be alleged of also the more smoothed and civilized of men that had
once it tasted the sweets of his/her liberty of companion and the liberty from each
worldly care, not the sighing once more to participate of his/her pleasures and
allurements.

"A hunter's field in the Rocky mountains is a true portrait. It is
it invariably did in a picturesque place. Nothing can be more social and
consoling that the welcome blaze of the fire of field in a cold winter
night."

Young Carson, alone with his/her horse and mule they would travel from fifty to a
one hundred miles, examining every stream and brook holding an acute watch,
for signals of beaver. Having selected his/her location, generally in some
valley eight or ten miles in extension, with a winding brook surrounding
through the centre that he was right to believe you/he/she was provisioned well with
beaver, he would choose a position for his/her field. These would be more or
less you elaborate in his/her construction, according to the time him intended to
spends there. But he would find some nooks always exposed to the sun with a Southerner,
exposure and a pleasant perspective, near the brook or in the spring of dessert
you sprinkle, and, if possible, with forest or stone that protect from the north
winds.

In some young times Carsons would build his/her mean-faced box as the
hunting-field had called. A great trunk generally furnished the foundation of
the part of back of the hut. Four strong poles were planted then in the
obstacles as to approximately include a space the plaza of eight feet. These poles were
crotched to the ends, as to sustain others for the roof. The forehead was
around five feet stop, the back no more than four. The whole slant of the
roof was from the forehead to the back. The coverage was made of barking or
plates and sometimes of skins. The sides were covered in a similar way. The
whole some forehead was open. The smooth ground floor was shed with