. A hunter's adventures in the great west [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Chasse; Chasse. .' Wi 46 A WIDOW ON MY TRAIL. had endeavoured to separate them, and drive off the strangers, lest their owners, when in search of them, should discover her retreat. This she failed to do, for the three nags, unseparated, wandered off into a neighbouring meadow. Not satisfied, she extin- guished her fire, searched for the horses' back-trail, found it, and with the skill so peculiarly charac- teristic of the North American Indian, followed it up to %vithin a short distance of my camp. As it was then nearly d
. A hunter's adventures in the great west [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Chasse; Chasse. .' Wi 46 A WIDOW ON MY TRAIL. had endeavoured to separate them, and drive off the strangers, lest their owners, when in search of them, should discover her retreat. This she failed to do, for the three nags, unseparated, wandered off into a neighbouring meadow. Not satisfied, she extin- guished her fire, searched for the horses' back-trail, found it, and with the skill so peculiarly charac- teristic of the North American Indian, followed it up to %vithin a short distance of my camp. As it was then nearly dark she desisted till dawn of day, when she renewed her exertions, and easily dis- covered me by the smoke from my tell-tale fire. She had closely watched all my movements, followed me in my search for my horses, and in my stalk up to her camp. Perceiving nothing hostile in my manner, she perhaps saw—gentle reader, do not consider me conceited—the prospect of a future husband, for hers had been dead some months— killed, as she told me, by the flilling of a limb of a neighbouring tree in one of the gales of wind of last winter; and Indian widows, as well as English ones, often think this quite long enough to mourn in solitude the loss of a dear departed. As is very common among the Western tribes, the husband of this squaw had been a trapper. An Indian beauty would sooner link her fate with such a man than with the proudest chief of her tribe. This preference most probably results from the fact that the red man expects all manual labour, it matters not how severe, to be performed by the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gillmore, Parker. London : Hurst and Blackett
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