John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 47

his/her hunters of skins undertook their vocation. They started far south to the head,
waters of the Joaquin of St., and it trapped down that brook, a distance of
approximately one hundred and fifty miles. They struck then the greatest flood of
the Sacrament, and it almost followed on that brook three hundred and fifty
miles. They had now gotten furs enough to load down all the horses and
mules to their disposition. They prepared him to return to Saint Fe, where them
it was sure of a ready market for their furs that would be expeditious to Europe
for their ending sale.




I CAPITULATE IV.

Conflicts with the Indians.

    The American Hunter of skins.--The Hunter of skins of the Bay of the Hudson
    Society.--The Trip back.--The Life smoothed in the wild Region.--The
    Spanish gentlemen.--Board of the Hunters of skins.--Mastery of itself
    of Kit Carson.--The Field Clarified of Intruders.--Stealing the
    Thievish.--Sale of the Furs.--The Consignment of the Mr. Fitzpatrick.--Pains
    and Pleasures of the Mountain Rocky Life.--Search of Indian Horse
    Thievish.--Extraordinary battle.


In the last chapter we have alluded to the friendly reunion in the valley,
of Joaquin of St., of the American hunters of skins with a party from Canada, it sent
out of the Society of Bay of the Hudson. It is an extraordinary fact but one that
all will admit, that the Society of Bay of the Hudson maintained far friendlier
you report with the Indians that the Americans assured. In fact, them
it rarely had some difficulty with them anything. The following reasons seem
rather satisfactorily to explain this difference. It is said:

"The American hunter of skins was not as the employees in the Bay of the Hudson, you/he/she crossed to the
business. Oftener that some other way he was of the wild youth that, later
of the smaller crime in the society of his/her native place, the safety looked for from
reproach or punishment in the wild region. Or he was some they disappointed man,
who with feelings embittered toward his/her individuals, he/she preferred the isolation
of the forest and mountain. Many were everywhere of a class disreputable,