John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 42

Society put out for the river of Columbia. The Mr. Young and its party remained
to trap in the valley of the Sacrament. It happened to this point an event
what it illustrates again the fearlessness, the sagacity and energy of Kit
Carson.

Not very away from their camp there was the Catholic Mission of the San
Rafael. Of the Indians that belong to that Mission after having committed different,
atrocity, ran away, and taken shelter in an Indian and distant village. It was
held important, in order that is probable that the Indians are kept under to greet
limitation, that such crime should not go unpunished. A strength was expeditious
demands the surrender of the fugitives. But the Indians supposed a hostile
attitude, refused to abdicate the criminals and fiercely attaching the
Party of mission, drove again them with loss.

The Mission applied to the hunters of skins for assistance. The application was
quickly granted. Such victory would puff on the Indians, makes them
insolent, and it encourages them to make war on the other parties of the whites.
Eleven volunteers were selected for the consignment and the young one and
Fragile Kit Carson was entrusted with the command. In manners he was
you tame as a girl, with a soft voice as that of a woman. He had anybody
the herculean powers of muscle, but he had mind mental powers that had been,
developed in one hundred emergencies. And these strong veterans, game of
the wild region seems with an accord to have decided that he was the
being all right for condurrli in battle, where to perhaps meet them were
in hundreds of wild warriors.

[The illustration]

Cautiously Kit Carson conducted his/her small ribbon as to draw near to the Indian
village inpercepito. To a their determined signals they raised the war-cry and
him impetuously fallen in the cluster of wigwams. As the terrified warriors
dressed again wicker out of the huts, entirely not prepared for battle, these infallible shots
them staid low. A bystander of the warriors you/they were killed. The rest ran away in
dismay. The village was captured with the women and his/her children. The