John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 92

experiments, suggestion and job of Christopher Carson. His/her sober habits,
severe honor and the great respect for the truth, have won him to everybody that is able
friend calls him/it;  and among such you/he/she can be enumerated, thing of names to some
of the men most separate of which actions are recorded on the pages
American history.

"Some years ago, the writer of this first Christopher Carson met. It
neither needed a second introduction, neither the assistance of a friendly
panegyric, to train to discover him/it, in Christopher Carson those lines of the face
of virility that is esteemed by the great and good being the
ornaments separate of character. This knowledge matured in a
the friendship of the purest postage stamp. Since then the writer has been then the
I befriend intimate and companion of Christopher Carson in his/her house, in the
wild scenes of the hunting, on the footstep of war and on the battleground.

"Physically Christopher Carson is small in stature, but of pact
structure. He has a great and it excellently developed head, a sparkling grey eye,
and hair of a sandy color that he brings combed again. His/her education having
a lot of neglected state in his/her youth, he misses of theoretical culture.
From natural abilities, however he has greatly compensated for this defect.
He fluently speaks the French and Spanish languages, besides the being a
perfect master of many Indian dialects. In Indian customs, them
manners, the habits and the base of their behavior, any man on the
American continent is better specialized."




I CAPITULATE VII.

You wage war with the Indian Blackfeets.

    Harness without success.--Disastrous March to Strong Room.--The Party
    on Horse-meat.--The Hunting Consignment.--His/her Rare
    Attractions.--Attacked by the Blackfeet.--Sure arrival to the
    Strongly.--All of their Animals Stolen by the Indians.--Consignment to
    the Country of Blackfeet.--Winter Quarters with the friendly one
    Indian.--The sufferings of the Animals.--You return to the Blackfeet
    Country.--Fights with the Indians.--Accidents of the Battle.