John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 33

provided of ropes that it was ready for transport. These skins were worth then
approximately eight dollars for pound.

After an absence of three or four weeks, young Carsons would return with
his/her treasures, often many one hundred dollars in the value, to the appointment
of the Mr. Ewing Young to Taos. Soon he would put again out on another similar
consignment. This way Carson passed the winter of 1827.




I CAPITULATE III.

Among the Hunters of skins.

    The Hunters of skins of Discomfited.--The Party New Organizzata.--A Battle
    with the Indians.--Trapping on the Colorado.--March to the
    Sacrament.--The Friendly Indians.--Crossing the
    Desert.--Instinct of the Mule.--The Enchanting Valley of the
    Colorado.--The Mission of Gabriel of St..--Enormous herds of
    Bovine livestock.--The Mission of Fernando of St..--Adventures in the Valley
    of Joaquin of St..--The Reunion of two Harness Ribbons.--Reasons for
    The Celebrity of Kit Carson.--A Military Consignment.--The Indian Horse
    Thievish.--The Search and Capture.


Soon after Carson returned to the box of the Mr. Young from one of his
consignments that trap, a party of hunters of skins returned to that you/he/she had put out
you explore the valley of the Colorado in search of furs. To their Taos they were
west of the Rocky mountains and the run of routing that they would take it conducted
them even more far in a direction northwest, a distance of three or four
one hundred miles. You knew that the region was full of wandering Indians,
and you/he/she was not doubted that it attaches him with ferocity, if theirs saw some opportunity of
overpowering the hunters of skins, it would do so, and it grabs their effects that to
the Indians would try loot of almost inconceivable value. The rifle
gives such advantage to the hunters of skins on the Indian, with his/her arc and
arrows that they has never hesitated, when on the open plan in
almost meeting some superiority of numbers.

This party of eighteen hunters of skins, with their horses and very loaded
mules, had advanced but the trip of some days, on an almost unexplored