Beyond the old frontier : adventures of Indian-fighters, hunters, and fur-traders . sell thehorses which were absolutely necessary to the furtraders, since horses were the only food available, forthey were not in a position to go out and run later got the best of them by this plan:When the whites had nothing to eat, the articles usu-ally paid for a horse were tied up in a bundle; this done,McKenzie, with ten or twelve of his men, would sallyforth with their rifles to the grazing ground of thehorses, shoot the fattest they could find, and carry offthe flesh to their camp, leavi
Beyond the old frontier : adventures of Indian-fighters, hunters, and fur-traders . sell thehorses which were absolutely necessary to the furtraders, since horses were the only food available, forthey were not in a position to go out and run later got the best of them by this plan:When the whites had nothing to eat, the articles usu-ally paid for a horse were tied up in a bundle; this done,McKenzie, with ten or twelve of his men, would sallyforth with their rifles to the grazing ground of thehorses, shoot the fattest they could find, and carry offthe flesh to their camp, leaving the price stuck up ona pole alongside the head of the dead horse. This manoeuvre succeeded several times, and an-noyed the Indians very much; some of them lost theirbest horses by it. Then it was that they combined toattack the whites in their camp. This news was broughtMcKenzie by one of his hired spies, and was confirmedby the fact of an Indian offering to sell a horse forpowder and ball only. From various other suspiciouscircumstances there remained but little doubt in the. w H^ tSJZ w sJOtfa fe o en wffiH w a: o wpa whJ g PQZ Ow I UJ O pa An Early Fur Trader 35 minds of the whites but that there was some dark de-sign in agitation. In this critical conjuncture, Mc-Kenzie again eluded their grasp by ensconcing himselfand his party in an island in the middle of the they remained, in a manner blockaded by theIndians; but not so closely watched but that they ap-peared every now and then with their long rifles amongthe Shahaptian horses; so that the Indians grew tiredof their predatory excursions, and therefore sent a mes-senger to McKenzie. A parley ensued between themain land and the island; the result of which was, thatthe Indians agreed to sell horses to the whites at theusual price—the whites, on their part, to give up theirmarauding practices. The trade in horses now went on briskly, althoughMcKenzie regarded the Indians with much procured food
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