. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 136 AUDUBON iSi il'TOiSPS'AOiliiU'. at first, but thinking that they were a band of Indians coming with this ceremony to trade (which is not uncom- mon) we did not fire upon them till the balls and arrows came whistling about our heads; then only was the word given, • Fire! ' Had they been bold enough at the onset to have rushed into the fort, we could have done nothing but suffer death under their ; Mr. Denig gave me the following " Bear Story," as he heard it from the parties concerned
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 136 AUDUBON iSi il'TOiSPS'AOiliiU'. at first, but thinking that they were a band of Indians coming with this ceremony to trade (which is not uncom- mon) we did not fire upon them till the balls and arrows came whistling about our heads; then only was the word given, • Fire! ' Had they been bold enough at the onset to have rushed into the fort, we could have done nothing but suffer death under their ; Mr. Denig gave me the following " Bear Story," as he heard it from the parties concerned: " In the year 1835 two men set out from a trading-post at the head of the Cheyenne, and in the neighborhood of the Black Hills, to trap Beaver; their names were Michel Carri^re and Bernard Le Brun. Carriere was a man about seventy years old, and had passed most of his life in the Indian country, in this dangerous occupation of trapping. One evening as they were setting their traps along the banks of a stream tributary to the Cheyenne, somewhat wooded by bushes and Cottonwood trees, their ears were suddenly saluted by a growl, and in a moment a large she Bear rushed upon them. Le Brun, being a young and active man, imme- diately picked up his gun, and shot the Bear through the bowels. Carriere also fired, but missed. The Bear then pursued them, but as they ran for their lives, their legs did them good service; they escaped through the bushes, and the Bear lost sight of them. They had concluded the Bear had given up the chase, and were again engaged in setting their traps, when Carriere, who was a short distance from Le Brun, went through a small thicket with a trap and came directly in front of the huge, wounded beast, which, with one spring, bounded upon him and tore him in an awful manner. With one stroke of the paw on his face and forehead he cut his nose in two, and one of the claws reached inward nearly to the brain at the root of the nose; the same stroke tore out
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