How the world travels . AMERICAN TROTTER. The wagons were drawn by teams of stronghorses, mules, or oxen, and large numbers ofemigrants generally travelled together. This wasnecessary, as small parties would almost certainlyhave been attacked by the Indians. JOURNEYS IN THE NEW WORLD 65 Even when they did travel in company thecolonists were not always safe, and a man who. QUEBEC CALECHE. went to the West in 1850 tells a terrible story ofhis adventures. On this occasion Indian guides were employedto lead the way across the passes of the RockyMountains, and these guides proved to be untrust- 66
How the world travels . AMERICAN TROTTER. The wagons were drawn by teams of stronghorses, mules, or oxen, and large numbers ofemigrants generally travelled together. This wasnecessary, as small parties would almost certainlyhave been attacked by the Indians. JOURNEYS IN THE NEW WORLD 65 Even when they did travel in company thecolonists were not always safe, and a man who. QUEBEC CALECHE. went to the West in 1850 tells a terrible story ofhis adventures. On this occasion Indian guides were employedto lead the way across the passes of the RockyMountains, and these guides proved to be untrust- 66 HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS worthy and treacherous. One night, when thecamp was pitched in a forest, nearly all the horseswere stolen, together with the stores, and then,when the emigrants were in this helpless position,they were attacked by a band of Indians. Afterthat, the story seems like one of the cinema playswith which nowadays we are all familiar, for thewriter tells how he and another man were chosento ride for help to a neighbouring fort, how theywere pursued by the savages, how they escaped,and how, finally, when they returned, it was tofind that they were too late, and that during theirabsence the wagons had been burnt and the hap-less people murdered. Even disasters like this did not, however, dauntthe brave adventurers, and thirteen years later wehear of a
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