Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . -fourth inchdeep. After rubbing some dry cedar bark Avith his hands till PIONEERING THE WEST 247 it was very fine, he placed the flat stick on the gToimd andone end of the long stick, which was at one end a little smaller,and putting the largest end in one of the counter-sunk holes,placed his hands together around the top of the stick, which hemade to turn around back and forth ve
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . -fourth inchdeep. After rubbing some dry cedar bark Avith his hands till PIONEERING THE WEST 247 it was very fine, he placed the flat stick on the gToimd andone end of the long stick, which was at one end a little smaller,and putting the largest end in one of the counter-sunk holes,placed his hands together around the top of the stick, which hemade to turn around back and forth very fast. As he workedhis hands this way, at the same time pressing doAvn all hecould, it caused his hands to work down on the stick and hehad to place them at the top very often. In about twelveor fifteen minutes he had a few tiny sparks of fire he hadmade with the sticks, burning the fine ground bark. After that it was easy, but when the fire was lighted was in a very sweaty condition. We did not begTudgehim his supper, as we thought he had earned it and he seemedpleased to get it that way. I have seen an Indian make fire bysimjDly rubbing two sticks together. This plan takes longer aldharder 248 PIONEERING THE WEST SEC. Ill—HARD —SAVED BY A RABBIT. This was told me by one of the Pony Express riders whoseride Avas from Salt Lake City to Rush ValleA^ He passed thepoint of the mountain eighteen or twenty miles south of SaltLake City, but as there was a heavy snowstorm raging he couldnot tell which way he was traveling. He knew that he hadgone far enough to bring him to the river, if he had kept theright road. He went on till himself and pony were both aboutgive out, then seeing no signs of a break in the storm, gotoff the pony to give both of them a little rest. The snow wasquite deep and drifting. Curling up beside a sagebrush he soon was sound did not know just how long he had slept, but he did knowthat some animal had jumped acros
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