That next day we lost many hours on a large fork of the river, where the turning of the Spanish trace led us to believe that the party had set off southward. Finding that they had returned and continued their ascent4 of the main stream, we did likewise. This gave us but little progress for that day.
But the next morning we set out, confident that we should reach the Grand Peak within a few hours. Our astonishment5 was great when, after marching nearly twenty-five miles, we found ourselves at evening seemingly no nearer the mountains than at sunrise. Yet we had thought to encamp at their base that night!
The following two days we spent in hunting buffalo6 and jerking the meat. The marrow7 bones gave us a feast fit for a king,—fit even for citizens of the Republic.
The second day of our march onward8, still keeping to the Spanish trace, we at last found ourselves appreciably9 nearing the mountains. What was not so welcome, we came upon the fresh traces of two Indians who had ascended10 the river very recently. Warned by this, we proceeded in the morning more than ever wary11 of ambuscades. There was good reason for our precautions.
Scarcely had the Lieutenant, Baroney, and myself ridden out in advance of the party, when of a sudden the interpreter sang out: "Voilà! Les sauvages!"
A moment later we also caught sight of the Indians, a number of whom were circling about us on the high ground, while others raced directly upon us out of the dense12 groves13 of cottonwoods. All were afoot; which, taken with the unmistakable cut of their hair and their red and black paint, told us all too plainly that they were a war party of Pawnees returning from an unsuccessful raid upon one of the Western tribes.
Knowing well how apt are the warriors16 to be evil-tempered after the humiliation17 of a failure to strike their enemy, I prepared to sell my life as dearly as might be. All the probabilities pointed18 to the supposition that the party was made up of Skidis, or Loups, and I, for one, had no desire to become a captive in their hands. It was enough to have escaped in my boyhood from the stake and fire of the Shawnees. I had no intention of now letting myself be crucified and mangled19 and burned as a sacrifice to the morning star by these prairie savages20.
But Pike, cool as ever, restrained Baroney and myself from firing, and the Indians seemed to justify22 his moderation by flinging down their weapons and running to us with outstretched arms. In a moment they were all about us, in a jostling, jabbering23 crowd, patting and hugging us as though we had been blood kinsmen24. So urgent were they with their friendly requests for us to dismount that we finally complied. On the instant an Indian was upon each horse and riding off.
Still the others held to their friendly gestures, and upon looking back, we could see the rest of their party making no less friendly demonstrations25 among our soldiers. We were partly reassured26 when we learned that the warriors were not Loups, but a party from the Grand Pawnee. But the confirmation27 of our surmise28 that they were returning from an unsuccessful raid upon the Tetans, or Ietans,—whom the Spaniards call Comanches,—caused us to fall back upon our main party and work it around to a camp in a little grove14 as speedily as possible.
During this man[oe]uvre more than one of our unwelcome visitors bent29 their bows. But the firm insistence30 of our gallant31 leader won its way with the savages. Soon all sixty were seated about us in a ring. The Lieutenant then sat down opposite their chief, with the council pipe laid out before him.
At his orders, gifts of tobacco, knives, and flints were placed beside the chief. The present was greeted with guttural cries of dissatisfaction, and the chief demanded with great insolence32 that we should give them a quantity of our most valuable equipage, from ammunition33 to blankets and kettles. To this, despite the advice and even urgent plea of Baroney, our commander firmly refused to accede34.
At last, after no little grumbling35 and threatening, they presented us with a vessel36 of water, and drank and smoked with us, in token of amity37. Not satisfied with this, and warned by Baroney, I kept on my feet, watching the treacherous38 warriors. Our wariness39 was justified40 by the contemptuous manner in which many of their number threw away their presents. When, immediately after this, we began to reload our pack horses, the entire band pressed into our midst and began to pilfer41 right and left.
For a time all was in the most perilous42 confusion, Pike and I having to mount our horses to save the very pistols in our holsters. On every side the savages were snatching articles, which the soldiers were doing their best to wrest43 from them.
"The rogues44!" cried Pike. "Baroney, command the chief to call off his men. I'll not submit to open robbery!"
Even while Baroney interpreted the order, the chief slipped a knife from the belt of one of the privates who was turned the other way, and hid it behind his shield. Almost in the same moment he faced the Lieutenant, and flung out his hand in a gesture of injured innocence45.
Baroney hastily interpreted his ironic46, hypocritical reply: "The great white chief has an open hand, a good heart. It cannot be he grudges47 his poor red friends a few small gifts. My braves are wretched; they are needy48; they hunger."
"Hungry, are they?" shouted Pike. "Then we'll give them lead to eat! Stand ready to fire, men!" He rose in his stirrups and pointed his pistol at the chief. "By the Almighty49! I'll shoot the next scoundrel who touches our goods!"
I looked for an instant acceptance of the challenge. Intermingled among us as they were and so greatly superior in numbers, the savages had every advantage. In hand to hand fighting their clubs and knives and stone tomahawks would have been as efficient as our weapons, while our firearms, once emptied, would have taken us more time to reload than an Indian would require to shoot a quiverful of arrows.
For a long moment our fate hung in the balance, while the enraged51 pilferers gripped their weapons and glared at us with murderous hate. The tense silence was broken only by the sharp clicking of our hammers. Suddenly Sergeant52 Meek53, far too well disciplined to fire without orders, yet unable to restrain his pugnacity54, seized a brawny55 young warrior15 by the shoulder, and whirling him around like a child, sent him flying off with a tremendous kick.
"Begone, ye varmint!" he roared.
It was the last straw to the savages. Overawed by our unquailing boldness in the face of their superior numbers, they followed their staggering fellow, sullen56 and scowling57, muttering threats, yet afraid to strike.
We waited with finger on trigger, until the last of their long file had glided58 beyond gunshot. Then the Lieutenant, half choking with rage, ordered us to take stock of our losses. It did not soothe59 him to find that the thieves had managed to make away with some thirty or forty dollars' worth of our property. Not even the ferocious60 Sioux and Chippewas had dared to rob him in this brazen61 fashion. But with only sixteen guns, all told, it was wiser for us to submit to the outrage62 than to imperil the expedition and perhaps lose our lives in an attempt to follow and punish the rascals63.
That evening the Lieutenant and I went back and lay in wait beside our trace, thinking that the thieves might return and attempt to steal our horses. It would have been only too well in keeping with the habits of these savages, for the Pawnees are the most noted64 horse-thieves of all the prairie tribes. Fortunately our watch proved needless.
By noon of the day after this encounter we came to the third large southern branch of the river, immediately beyond which a fork on the north bank ran off about northwest toward the Grand Peak which we had first sighted so far out on the prairies. As the Peak now seemed only a day's journey distant, the Lieutenant decided65 to attempt its ascent with a small party. But first we joined in erecting66 a breastwork,—the first American building in all this vast wilderness67; the first structure south of the Missouri and west of the Pawnee Republic to float the glorious Stars and Stripes!
Shortly after noon of the second day the Lieutenant marched for the peak with Miller68, Brown, and myself.
Instead of reaching the foot of the peak by nightfall, as we had expected, we were compelled to camp under a cedar69 tree, out on the bleak70 prairie. Severe as was the cold, we felt still greater discomfort71 from the lack of water. Again we marched for the great mountain, in the fond expectation of encamping that night upon its summit. Instead, we hardly reached the base of the lofty rise. Fortunately we there found a number of springs, and succeeded in killing72 two buffaloes73.
Still untaught by experience, we foolishly left our blankets and all other than a pocketful of provision at our bivouac, and set off up the mountain at dawn, assured that we could reach the top by noon and descend74 again by nightfall. Almost at the start I brought down a deer of a species unknown to us, it being larger than the ordinary animal, and its ears much like those of a mule75. The carcass was flayed76 without delay, and the skin hung well up in a pitch-pine, together with the saddle.
Made impatient by the delay, we began our climb with a will, determined77 to reach the summit even earlier than we had planned. In this, however, we were to be most sadly disappointed. After clambering up the steep slopes and precipices78 all day without arriving at the crest79, we were forced to take refuge for the night in a cave. While preparing to creep into this cheerless shelter, our discomfort over the utter lack of blankets, food, and water was for the moment forgotten in the curious sensation of standing2 under a clear sky and gazing at a snowstorm far below us down the mountain.
Morning found us half famished80 with thirst and hunger and bruised81 by our rocky beds, but we needed no urging to resume our laborious82 ascent. The view from our lofty mountain side was the grandest I had ever seen. Above us arched the translucent83 sky in an illimitable dome84 of purest sapphire85, rimmed86 before our upturned eyes by gaunt, jagged rocks and fields of dazzling snow. Behind and below us the vast desert of prairies stretched away to east and north and south, far beyond the reach of human eye, its tawny87 surface closely overhung by a sea of billowy white clouds. Far to the south, at least a hundred miles distant, we noted in particular a vast double, or twin, peak, which stood out from and overtopped the heights of the front range even as our Grand Peak dwarfed88 its neighbors.
But we did not linger long to gaze at this sublime89 prospect90. Though our thermometer here registered well below zero, we struggled on upward through the waist-deep snow to the first of the summits which rose before us. An hour found us close upon what we took to be the goal of our efforts.
At last, panting from our exertions91 and the rarity of the air, we floundered up the final rise to the crest. In this wild, scrambling92 rush Brown dropped to the rear, while the Lieutenant, though physically93 the least robust94 of the party, forged ahead even of myself, upborne by his zealous95 spirit. He, the leader of the expedition, should be—must be—the first to set foot upon the summit of the Grand Peak!
With a final rally of his wiry strength, he uttered a shout and dashed up over the thin, hard-crusted snow of the summit to the crest,—only to stop short and stand staring off beyond, in bitter disappointment.
"Look!" he cried. "The Grand Peak!"
"The Grand Peak!" I shouted back, too excited to perceive the import of his tone and bearing. "The Grand Peak! We'll name it for you,—for the first American to sight it; the first to mount its crest; the first—"
My exultant96 cry died away on my lips. I halted and stood gaping97 in speechless amazement98 at the peak that loomed99 skyward over beyond the lesser100 height we had mounted. What we had taken for the Grand Peak was no more than a satellite that had masked the Titan from our view! As we gazed from our hard-won crest, there uprose before us, grander than ever, the vast bulk of the mighty50 mountain, its sublime summit glittering with eternal snows. But the nearest ridge101 of its stupendous pyramidal base was yet a full sixteen miles distant!
I turned and shouted the discovery to Miller and Brown, who toiled102 up beside us to stare at the awesome103 beauty of the Peak in dull wonderment.
"We will begin the return march," he ordered, without betraying a trace of his keen disappointment either in look or voice.
"Send them back," I replied, nodding toward Brown and Miller. "Let us go on and make the attempt alone."
"My thanks to you, John!" he exclaimed. "But it would be madness, sheer madness. Through these snows we could not reach the base of the Peak short of a day's march; and look at that ascent! I doubt if any man could scale those heights."
"Not at this season. Yet, if you give the word to make the attempt—"
"No!" he rejoined. "Without food, and clad as we are in summer wear, no! It is enough to have ascended this peak, without our being so mad as to attempt the impossible."
"Then the sooner we reach the plain, the better," I said, pointing to the mountain side behind us.
While we had stood viewing the indescribable grandeur105 and sublimity106 of the Peak and the snow-clad sierras which stretched away in savage21 majesty107 to north and south of their mighty chieftain, the clouds below us were rolling upwards108, were enveloping109 the entire mountain upon which we stood. Fearful of being lost in a snowstorm upon these bleak heights, we descended110 rapidly down a cleft111, and regained our bivouac at the foot of the mountain just as the snow began to fall.
Here we found our blankets and other camp equipment as we had left them. But the ravens112 had robbed us of all our food, other than an unstripped fragment of the deer's ribs113. Though one of the men had killed a partridge during our descent, the bird and the lean deer bones together formed a scant114 enough meal for four men who had not eaten in two days.
About noon the next day we shot two buffaloes, upon whose flesh we gorged115 ourselves like Indians, and I, for one, am convinced that we had well earned the full meal.
In the valley, all up and down the creek116, we found many old Comanche camps, but the Indians had undoubtedly117 gone south for the Winter.
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deception
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ascent
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astonishment
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buffalo
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marrow
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onward
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appreciably
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ascended
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wary
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groves
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grove
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warrior
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warriors
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humiliation
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pointed
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mangled
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savages
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savage
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justify
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jabbering
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kinsmen
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demonstrations
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confirmation
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bent
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insistence
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ammunition
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grumbling
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vessel
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treacherous
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wariness
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pilfer
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wrest
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rogues
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innocence
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ironic
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needy
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almighty
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mighty
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