John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Capitolo 82
One March of one or two hundred miles it brought them to the banks of the Great one
River of snake. It was the month of November. In those northern latitudes
winter was rising up with a lot of gravity. The hill-tops were covered with
snow; the brooks were dressed again with ice; gusts frozen by the mountains
swept the dismal plans and the narrow parades. It was necessary to go in
winter quarters for a couple of months. But there was no uneasiness in
this.
They selected a comfortable valley that has a southern exposure with a northerner,
barrier of hills, and in the mean of a grove of wide-expansion that fringed a
pure brook of mountain. There were fifty men. Every men belonged the
working class. Every man was a specialized dealer to chase, while trapping,
wigwam-building, cooking, and being a tailor. The reared of the job of some times of theirs
cosey systematizes. Fuel was convenient and abundant. The fabric combed for their attire
you/he/she was already plotted on the backs of buffaloes, bears buck and wolves. Them
his/her own agile hands quickly formed them in garments impervious to leave without breath and
cold. They had placed in a true shop of game that the cold time
preserved, and there was more enough inside their course. And fortunately
for all of them, the law of nature of prohibition you/they had banished indeed from
the whole region all the intoxicating drinks. Where whiskey is not there
it is rarely some dispute. The pure brook of mountain provided them with them
drink that health-gives.
In some days everything was cosey and comfort around them. During
the months of December and January, and up to that the middle one of February,
while winter gusts swept the hills, heat, the abundance and the friendliness
reigned in these protected, happy huts in a valley of Rocky Mountain.
There was an exciting event that disturbed the serenity in this winter
camp.
A ribbon of Indian Blackfeet had cautiously attacked their footsteps,
looking for an opportunity at precipitous escape their horses. A very dark night,
a number of these attaches with ferocity, it sustained from a true numerous ribbon of warriors,