Riding quietly along the edge of the open ground for many hours, we drew in sight of the spot where the first raft had stopped at mid-day.
The camp had been made in the low ground near the river, and the Iroquois was at his post on the upper level, alert and watchful3.
By evening our little band was again united together, and a substantial meal was laid out, at which we all joined, with appetites not the less keen because of the exertions4 and anxieties of the past twenty-four hours. A long council followed the meal.
It was necessary to decide upon a course which should embrace in its plans the next six months of the summer season.
The latest acquisition to the strength of the party—the Iroquois—had declared his wish to share the fortunes of our[229] band for some months. To this no one objected. Indeed, it might have been said that all owed to him their safety. Had it not been for his timely warning, it was impossible to say what fate might not have befallen us, unsuspicious as we had been of attack or molestation5.
We therefore numbered four on the raft, and two horsemen. Now in the season which was beginning horses would be a necessity of life on the plains; therefore the first and most pressing want was a horse for each of the dismounted men.
Another necessity was the safe stowing away of the surplus goods which we possessed6. These could not be carried without seriously retarding7 the freedom of movement across the prairie. It was therefore decided8 that the stock should be placed in cache some four days’ journey further down the stream, and that at the point where they would be stored the four men would wait in camp the arrival of the other two, whose duty it would be to go in search of horses for the complete equipment of the whole band.
After every man had in his possession a horse, then it would be time to form plans for future action.
But it was one thing to say that each man should possess a horse, and quite another thing to provide the required number. True, horses could be obtained from many bands of Indians by barter9; but to hit off the whereabouts of a[230] band on the open plains was no easy matter.
Out of many courses open to him the Sioux determined10 upon one. He would start with me on the following morning, and directing his course due south would seek for buffalo in the great prairie. Once with the herds11, he need have no further difficulty on the score of food. They might then wander on as the buffalo moved, keeping the great herd12 in sight; by this means they would be certain to fall in with Indians out upon their spring hunting expeditions. From some of these bands horses could readily be exchanged for some articles of arms, which we could easily carry on the horses in addition to our own weapons.
So far went the plan.
It was computed13 that in three days we should fall in with buffalo, that a week more might elapse ere Indians were met with, and that perhaps a month might altogether intervene ere we would be back again at the point agreed upon for the cache.
All these matters having been talked over and arranged, preparations for the journey were next undertaken.
A couple of revolvers and an American repeating rifle, together with a few other items—all of which had originally formed a portion of the trader’s cargo—were taken from the raft and packed between the two horses. Blankets, a kettle, two tin cups, two axes, extra flints and steels, provisions to last four days—all the requisites14, in fact, for prairie travel—were[231] packed in bundles easily attached to the saddles, and everything made ready for a start at daybreak the following morning.
These preparations, together with the arrangements to be made by the party at the cache, occupied the remainder of the afternoon, and soon after dark we all lay down to sleep—the sleep to which our long-borne exertions had so well entitled us.
The dawn of a very fair spring morning saw Red Cloud and myself on the move; nor had its light long to shine ere the raft was bearing the other four down the swift current of the Red Deer river.
From the edge of the ridge15 where wood and plain met, we looked back to the river bank to catch a last glimpse of our friends. The raft was well in the centre of the stream going merrily along. The keen eyes of its occupants caught quick sight of the horsemen on the sky-line above them; there was a wave of hands, a faint shout of farewell, and then the frail16 link of sight was broken.
All day we held our southern way at an easy pace.
The horses were all too unused to work, to allow of more than a walk or trot17 being used; but the calculations of time had been based upon easy going, and there was no necessity for rapid movement.
I have already spoken of the general character of the prairie through which we travelled. Here and there small[232] copsewood studded the face of the great expanse of rolling grass-land; at times, the sheen of a blue lakelet caught the eye; and as the morning sun flashed over the scene, strange glimpses of hill-top, rock, and large trees were visible on the far-away horizon—those tricks of mirage19 which so frequently deceive the sight of the traveller while the morning and evening beams are slanting20 along the wilderness21.
Pleasant is this every-day life of travel over these great northern prairies, when the spring has come up from his southern home, bringing all his wealth of bird and bud to deck his roadway to the Polar Sea.
How fresh are the cotton-wood thickets22 where the paired partridges nestle, and roll in the dry scented24 leaves of last year’s autumn! How sweet are the early flowers that seem to burst all at once from the yellow grass, specking the knolls25 with pale blue buds, that open to look at the mid-day sun as he passes overhead, and then close again as the evening chills creep over the scene!
Over the ridge-line to the south, long V-shaped lines of wild geese come sailing on their northern way, some trailing behind as though they fain would cry halt along the margins27 of many of these soft and quiet lakes, whose blue waters spread invitingly28 below them; but inexorable instinct bids them follow on behind the wide arms of the moving wedge-shape column, into regions where yet the spring is a[233] laggard30, but in which man is a total stranger.
Yes, it is pleasant work that daily routine of prairie travel—work that brings to the heart of man as much of the simple satisfaction that exists in breathing, seeing, living, as can perhaps be found the whole earth over.
Over such a scene we now held our way, and evening found us camped by a tiny lake many miles from the starting-point.
The next day and the next day beheld31 us still holding south. But a change had gradually crept over the landscape. The thickets had become few, the lakelets scarce. Long stretches of unbroken plain lay before us, and, rolling away to east and west, the same treeless and yellow grassy32 hills spread out to the farthest verge33 of vision.
But there were no buffalo to be seen. Far and near the eye of the Sioux scanned in vain for a trace of those dark specks34 so welcome to the hunter’s sight—those moving specks, so infinitely35 small on the horizon, so impressive in the nearer distance, that tell him the great herds are at hand.
The fourth day had arrived, the last day for which food had been brought. More than 100 miles had been travelled, and yet not one trace of buffalo was visible on any side. From the evening camp that day we made a long survey of the plains. A ridge higher than its neighbours gave us a far extending view over the prairies, and as we stood upon[234] its summit while the sun was nearing the western horizon, vast indeed was the scene that lay within the compass of a single glance. If ever the mere36 fact of space can be thoroughly37 realized by man on earth, instantly embodied38 as it were in a single sweep of vision, brought home to the mind by the simple process of sight, it is when the eye sweeps over such a scene as this upon which we now looked. Not a cloud obscured it; no mist arose from stream or river; no blur39 of smoke crossed its immense depth. To the west, all was brilliant colour; to the east, the pale tints40 of the coming night were faintly visible above the horizon.
A grand sight surely! but one, nevertheless, upon which we now looked with a keen sense of disappointment; for all this scene of lonely distance held in its vast area no hope of food.
Still the Sioux was determined to hold his course further out into the waste.
“For two days more,” he said, as we finished the last bit of pemmican in a hollow beneath the hill from which our survey had been made—“for two days we will journey on to the south.”
“And then,” I inquired, “if we should not fall in with buffalo what will you do?”
“And then,” said the Sioux, “I will show you how we still can live and still can travel.”
Next morning we were off at daybreak, and all the long day through a steady pace was maintained to the south. Evening fell—morning dawned—and yet no food or sign of food appeared. The bird-life of the park-like prairie that lay to the north had wholly vanished. The lakelets lay at long intervals41 apart. Trace of buffalo there was none.
Still the Sioux kept his course unchanged, and so confidently had he spoken of the certainty of finding food that evening, that I never doubted for an instant that all would yet be well.
Each ridge that lay before us seemed to me to be the one that would bring to view the much desired game; but as ridge after ridge was passed and yet no sign of life became visible, I often bent42 my gaze to the west in order to measure the moments of daylight yet remaining.
At last, from one of those innumerable eminences43 that dot the surface of the prairie the Sioux drew rein44 and dismounted. All was unchanged. The vast circle of sky-line held no living creature in its embrace. Close by there lay a small sheet of water, and by its margin26 we two hungry men, unsaddled for the night.
But this time the Sioux did not perform the usual process of hobbling and turning adrift his horse.
“I promised you that you should have food to-night,” he said to me, “and now you shall see how it is to be done.”
So saying, he drew from his leather coat a small pocket-knife, and took from the pack of his saddle a tin cup holding[236] about a pint45. Then he passed the larêt with a running noose46 round his horse’s neck, drawing it tight as he did so. He then spoke18 a few words of encouragement to the horse, and the faithful animal answered by turning his head and rubbing his nostrils47 against his master’s arm.
Watching these proceedings48 with great interest, I saw to my astonishment49 the Sioux open a vein50 in the horse’s neck, and begin to draw from it a thin stream of blood. The horse never winced51 at the puncture52, nor indeed did he appear to be aware of what was going on. In a few minutes the little vessel53 was quite full; the cord was slackened, and the drain ceased.
Approaching the small fire of old buffalo chips and small sage54 stalks, which had just been lighted, the Sioux placed the vessel of blood upon the flame. Into it he crushed a few leaves of the wild sage which grew so profusely55 around. When the mixture had simmered for some minutes, he handed the cup to me. It did not look an inviting29 repast; but hunger borne for two days will make palatable56 most of the dishes that it is possible to put before a man.
The feeling that gnawed57 my stomach was something more than mere hunger, and urged by its raging pangs58 I took with eagerness what would otherwise have been to me a nauseous compound. Strange as it may appear, it really was palatable, and what was still more important, it was nourishing and sustaining. While half of the contents of the tin yet[237] remained, I handed it to the Indian, and our supper was soon over.
Strange shifts are those the red man learns in order to sustain his life amid the perils59 of the wilderness. Many of these shifts I had been taught in the past year, but none so strange as this one.
“See,” said the Sioux, when the scanty61 meal was finished, “the white man would have killed his horse when hunger had come upon him; he would have lived for three days, or four, and then he would have died. On these two horses we can live, if necessary, for many days, and they will still carry us along our way.”
At dawn next morning we were astir.
The Sioux ascended62 the hill at once. I remained in the camp. It was yet indistinct light, and the eye failed for a time to reach even midway across the vast field of vision that lay around. But at length the reddening eastern sky cast its reflection deeper into the west, and pierced the prairie in every direction. Suddenly the Sioux waved his hand, and shouted a wild whoop63 of triumph! The buffalo were in sight!
Far off and faint, dwarfed64 down by distance to mere dark specks, they dotted the horizon to the south-west, and spread nearer into the scene in atoms that were ever growing more distinct.
I was quickly at his side. Well indeed might the Indian have called his war-note. The sight would have been one to call forth65 no scant60 measure of enthusiasm, even had it been looked upon by men whose minds had not been strung by hunger to most anxious intensity66, for in itself it was a glorious prospect67.
Upon this vast silent plain had come, during the dark hours, a mighty68 invasion. The frontier of the horizon had been passed; the columns had spread out like some great fan-shaped cloud, and where the evening sun had gone down over a landscape lonely and untenanted, the glory of the morning beams had come flushing up upon the myriad69 surges of that wild animal life which, in size, majesty70, and numbers, stands all unequalled over the earth.
“How far are they away?” I asked, after I had for some moments gazed upon this grand scene.
“Three hours’ riding will take us to the foremost bulls,” answered the Indian. “The cows are a day or two farther off; but we cannot afford to pick our animals. We must take the first that comes.”
Descending71 the ridge we were soon in movement towards the sky-line of the south-west.
Towards mid-day the leading files of the herd were close at hand.
The ground was broken into many ridges23, having between them valleys that afforded perfect facilities for approach. It was not long, therefore, ere a shot from the rifle of the Sioux had brought down a young bull, near whose prostrate72 body our camp was at once made, and hunger fully73 satisfied—the tongue and some of the marrow74 bones being quickly put to roast over a fire made of sage sticks and dry grass.
The plan now formed by Red Cloud was to keep along the outskirts75 of the main body of the advancing column, which he judged to be many miles in length.
It was not, he thought, necessary to proceed much farther on our present course, as the Indians with whom he hoped to fall in, would be sure to follow the movements of the buffalo, and to have their camp one day or so behind the main body.
In this his surmises76 were perfectly77 correct. The next day saw the herd moving steadily78 towards the north-east; but it also brought a body of Indians into sight, whose quick eyes were not slow to detect the presence of strangers in the vicinity.
Having scouted79 for a time along ridges that commanded a view of our camp, a body of six braves, satisfied with their observations, came riding up at a gallop80. They proved to belong to a branch of the Blood Indians, the main body of which tribe was now “pitching” two days farther south, near the range of wooded hills known as the Cypress81 Mountains.
The buffalo, they said, had only recently passed the American boundary-line; and there had been some conflicts between Indian bands which had followed them over British territory, and the people of their own (the Blood) tribe.
Their cousins and allies, the Peaginoos, Blackfeet, and Sircies, were away to the west and north; but doubtless they would all soon draw near the buffalo, when they heard the news that they had reached “the great prairie.”
These were not altogether cheering tidings for us. The presence of the Sircies would undoubtedly82 lead to hostilities83; and although there existed no actual cause of quarrel between the Sioux and the Blackfeet or their kindred tribes, still their known hostility84 to almost all other races of red men around the wide circle of their boundaries, made it more than likely they would not hesitate to attack a solitary85 wanderer in their midst.
To the inquiry86 of the Sioux as to their having horses to barter, they replied that there were many horses with their tribe; and that if the Sioux and the white man would visit the camp, they had little doubt but that a trade could be readily entered upon.
It was arranged that the visit would be paid, and then the braves rode away in the direction from which they had come.
The object which the Sioux had hoped to attain87 was to procure88 the horses he stood in need of before any of the kindred[241] tribes already mentioned had joined the Bloods.
Once in possession of half-a-dozen horses, and with one day’s start, he would defy the united efforts of all the Sircies, Blackfeet, and Peaginoos to overtake him; but our position he well knew would be most hazardous89 if one or all of these bands should arrive ere his trade was concluded.
Early next morning, accordingly, we moved in the trail of the six Blood Indians, and by evening drew near the camp of the main body at the base of the Cypress hills.
The lodges91 were pitched along a level piece of ground a short distance away from a stream, which had its source in the neighbouring hills. The banks of this stream held growth of poplar, and bastard92 maple93, and willow94, which kept the camp in fuel, and yielded materials for the work of hide stretching and pemmican making—all which operations were in full swing in front of the lodges.
The arrival of the strangers was the signal for the coming forth of many braves; but etiquette95 did not permit the chief to come out from his lodge90 until the visit of ceremony had been duly paid to him by the strangers.
As we entered the camp we shook hands with the warriors96 and men of lesser97 note, who stood around on every side.
Finally dismounting near the chief’s lodge, and beckoning98 me to follow him, Red Cloud passed in beneath the low opening, and shaking hands with the chief, sat down on a buffalo robe at the farther side of the fire which smouldered in the centre.
The chief Tashota, or the Left-handed, was a tall and powerful-looking man, just past the prime of life. He sat reclining on his robe, looking straight into the fire before him, and blowing slow puffs99 from a calumet of green pipestone, curiously100 carved into the body and head of a bird. I also shook hands, and then seated myself in silence.
A minute or two passed, and Tashota, taking his pipe from his lips, spoke.
“Have my friends come far?”
“Yes. Seven days have passed since we left the Red Deer river.”
Then followed questions at slow intervals on most of the subjects of interest in prairie land—the game, the news of war, the movements of tribes, the doings of the white traders; but all semblance101 of curiosity on the part of the chief to know the objects of the present visit was carefully avoided, and that eagerness which, in civilization, is so prone102 to go at once “to the point” was nowhere observable.
Nor was the Sioux, anxious though he felt on the score of time, over hasty to develope his object. Of course he said nothing about the party left at the cache. He merely accounted for his presence in that part of the country by his desire to fall in with buffalo after the winter; and while expressing his willingness to become the purchaser of a few horses, he also adroitly103 touched upon the chances of the[243] other tribes shortly expected to arrive, being possessed of many superfluous104 animals which they would be eager to dispose of.
This was a clever bit of trade tactics. Tashota was not anxious to see a customer go even to his cousins; so after a time he asked what kind of animals the Sioux might require, and what he had to offer in exchange for them?
He wanted five or six animals of average size and speed. He had only a few weapons to offer in exchange; but they were good ones. He would show them to the chief.
Whereupon he took out a short but very handy American repeating rifle, carrying in its magazine fourteen cartridges106, which, by a simple action of the trigger-bar, were passed one by one into the barrel, and fired in succession with great rapidity; and he also laid on the ground a bag of cartridges and three revolver pistols.
The eyes of Tashota glistened107 as they looked at these weapons, and in his mind he resolved that they should be his.
Calling in one of his braves he ordered his band of horses to be driven in. Meantime his wife had been busily engaged in preparing dinner for us strangers. A plentiful108 supply of the best bits of the buffalo were put to boil over the replenished109 fire, and a meal was soon ready, to which the memory of the long fast so recently endured caused[244] ample justice to be done.
A lodge had been pitched for us, and when dinner was over we withdrew to it for the night, to await the arrival of the horses on the following morning.
But Red Cloud well knew that our position was anything but secure; there were other dangers threatening him besides those that lay in the expected arrival of the Blackfeet or of the Sircies. He reckoned that at least a week must elapse ere that portion of the Sircies which had attacked the hut at the Forks could reach the Cypress hills; so far as they were concerned he was safe. But the stray rumours he had caught of war between the Ogahalla branch of his own race and the Bloods were ominous110 of trouble to him.
If the Bloods had suffered at the hands of his race, they would not hesitate to revenge their injuries or their losses upon him. One thing was certain, and that was that the sooner he got away from his present position the better.
These thoughts gave him ample material for reflection during the night. Early next morning the horses had been driven in, and word came to the hut where we were lodged111 that Tashota was ready to do a trade.
It was not long before the Sioux had selected five horses from the band. The terms of barter were quickly settled, and the chosen horses having been caught, were duly handed[245] over to their new owner, whose rifles, revolvers, and ammunition112 passed over to the Blood chief.
By this time it was mid-day. The camp was quiet, but the mind of the Sioux was not easy. Things seemed to him to have run too smoothly113 in their exchange. His quick eye had detected what he considered to be faint indications of an intention to take back, if possible, the horses now bartered114. In the camp he knew he was safe; the laws of hospitality forbade a guest, once received, being ill-treated; but once outside the last lodge he would have all his tact105 and watchfulness115 put to the test—so at least he surmised116, and we shall soon see how true were his fears.
It was necessary for him, however, to hide completely from our hosts all tokens of suspicion. If our escape was to be effected it must be done soon, and before the Bloods could have taken steps to secure our capture. He determined, however, to make no secret of his intention to depart, judging truly that it would have been impossible to have got away unnoticed, and that it was better to maintain a show of confidence in the good faith and loyalty117 of the Bloods until the moment of any hostile act of theirs had actually arrived.
His plan was to leave the camp two hours before nightfall, so that our movements might be fully visible to the Bloods, and that they might see the direction we had chosen to take; for the rest, his real intention would be developed[246] only when night had fallen.
It was about three o’clock in the afternoon when we directed our steps to the lodge of Tashota. The chief was alone; not a movement of eye or feature betrayed that he meant mischief118 to the person or property of his visitors. Yet all the while a deep-laid plot had been arranged, to rob, and if necessary to kill, the Sioux after he had quitted the camp.
“I am starting this evening,” said the Sioux as he seated himself at the fire. “I am going north to the posts of the white traders, and the journey is long. I have come to bid my brother farewell.”
The chief nodded, and Red Cloud continued: “I have heard rumours of war between the Ogahalla Sioux and your people. For myself, I raise my hand against no red man; the quarrel of the Ogahallas is their own.”
The chief still kept silence.
Red Cloud arose, and held out his hand across the fire; the Blood shook it. Then the Sioux lifted the door-curtain of the lodge, and we passed out into the open.
Ten minutes later we two men, with seven horses, rode slowly from the camp.
Ten minutes later we rode slowly from the camp.
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