So far on our journey the obstacles thrown in our path by hostile men had outweighed1 those opposed by nature. From now on the reverse was true. The men we met were feeble savages2, ignorant, superstitious4, easily put to flight. But nature loomed5 as a foe6 of overawing strength. Each day brought its tests of endurance, daring, brawn7 or skill. Time meant nothing in face of the difficulties we must conquer. A month passed after our escape from the wolf pack before we even sighted the gigantic barrier of the Sky Mountains, and the passage of their snowy summits required additional months of effort.
But this is to gallop8 in advance of my story. Yet I scarce know how to set down in sober language the magnitude of the forces we encountered, the supreme9 majesty10 of that unknown country, the Godlike splendor11 of the Winter scenery, the awful, silent loneliness. And of all the wonders that lent emphasis to our own puny12 might I think the one that affected13 us most was the absence of man from the plains and forests that intervened betwixt the Teton villages and the mountains. For months we were companied only by the myriads14 of beasts that had fled the intense cold of the heights for the milder temperature below the timber-line.
The great deer which Tawannears called Wapiti, red deer, antelope15, buffalo16, wild goats and wild sheep we saw in millions. We killed fresh meat with our hatchets17, and had it always at need. They moved about the low-lands—which, of themselves, were sufficiently18 high, inasmuch as the country shelved upward, mile after mile—in search of such food as could be afforded by tree-bark and the herbage left beneath the snow; and in their sore want and innocence19 of man they did no more than step aside from our path and stare after us. Of wolves we saw many and heard some, but they never again came near us—explain it as you choose. For myself, I have no more to say, being convinced by marvels20 I was yet to behold21 that Corlaer was right past disputation when he said, "der white man does not know eferything."
That was a Winter of unprecedented22 cold. Late in coming, it developed protracted23 periods of severe frost, linked by tumultuous storms, after which the forest would be scattered24 with wild things frozen in their tracks. Taught by experience, we became apt at seeking shelter with the first hint that the Wind Spirits were plucking the wild geese in the North, careful not to move across open country unless the weather signs were favorable; and whilst this delayed us, 'tis beyond question it preserved our lives. With a roof, four walls and fire, men may defy nature's worst attacks, no matter how make-shift the covering.
I said it was a month before we sighted the Sky Mountains—but they were still many miles away. We had followed a fork of the river which flowed through the Teton country. It carried us northwest, and after several weeks brought us within view of a range of ragged25 peaks, which, at first, we took to be our immediate26 goal. But the river banded the broken country at their base, and we came presently into a wide upland somewhat like the savannahs that lined the Missouri.* The ragged peaks dwindled27 behind us; the horizon was empty ahead—until a day of unusually brilliant sunshine with a cloudless sky revealed a serrated glory in the west, cones28 and saddlebacks and hulking ridges29, square and round and oblong and eccentrically-shaped rock-masses, all draped in snow.
* It seems probable that Ormerod refers here to the Medicine Bow range and the Laramie Plains.—A.D.H.S.
A storm delayed us another week, but we picked up the trail with light hearts, and each sunset was an inspiration to faster progress. It was as if a giant's paint-pots had been upset and splashed harmoniously30 over the mountain-wall—soft reds, purples, yellow, and the half-tones that run between. Or the Painter's mood would be different, and they would be slung31 on in harsh, contrasting belts of color that jarred your eyes. Amazing! And it continued after we were at the very foot of the towering wall, poking32 this way and that to find a gateway33 to the mystery land beyond. The heights close by might lose their potent34 spells, but in the hazy35 distance, North or South, the Painter worked his will at random36.
In my youth I marched with the Duke of Berwick into the Pyrenees. That was child's play compared to the undertaking37 we confronted. For we had no knowledge whatsoever38 of the secret of this jumbled39 prospect40. Forests cloaked the mountains' lower flanks, and under the trees the snow was heaped so deep we must have been swallowed to suffocation41 but for our snowshoes. Above the timberline began the dominion42 of the rocks, and here all was snow and ice, either smoothly43 slippery or treacherously44 loose. Upon our first attempt to gain a height we precipitated45 a slide which carried us into the tree-tops of a forest. We were cripples for days.
Again and again we probed ravines and valleys in hopes they would lead up to a practicable pass, but we passed no more than time. We wasted weeks on protracted journeys which led to the brinks of precipices46 or dead-walls—dangerous work as well as tiresome47, for the snow-slides were frequent and impossible to forecast. Enough sun on a certain spot to start a thaw48, and a whole hillside might go.
In the beginning we worked north along the base of the range, in accordance with a theory advanced by Tawannears that possibly the fork of the river we had followed might break through the Sky Mountains, and when we demonstrated this was not so he suggested that the other, or southern fork, might do so. Neither Corlaer nor I had a better plan to offer, and we retraced49 our steps to the south, and presently struck into a likely valley that ended in a ramp50 of precipices. So we tried again, and a third time, always without success.
It was after this third try that we were snowed up in a hut we threw together in a rock-hollow. There was nothing to do, except eat, sleep and keep the fire going. None of us was talkative. We were too disappointed, too tired. But some time in the afternoon of the second day Corlaer woke up Tawannears and me.
"I hafe foundt der way," he announced.
"What way?" I yawned.
"Ofer der mountains."
Tawannears looked interested, but I was resentful at being disturbed.
"Perhaps," he answered, unmoved.
"What is in Corlaer's mind?" asked the Seneca eagerly.
Peter made up the fire before replying. Talking was an effort for him, and he usually required time to sort out his words.
"We follow der animals," he said at length.
"What?" I exclaimed.
But Tawannears nodded.
"True. Corlaer is right, Otetiani. If there is a pass, the wild things must know of it. We have only to watch them."
"But it is quite probable that in this weather no pass will be practicable, especially for animals," I objected.
"Spbring is coming soon," replied the Dutchman.
"We have only to wait and watch," added Tawannears.
I had to admit that they were right. And when the storm blew itself out two days later, having doubled the mountains' snow blanket, we abandoned our frontal attack upon the barrier in favor of a reconnaissance of its approaches. For a week we pushed on south through the foothills, and were finally forced to a halt by a spur-range, which ran eastward53. Manifestly, 'twas a waste of time to envelop54 this, and we retraced our steps again, by no means so confident that Corlaer's suggestion had been as canny55 as we first supposed, for we had seen not a single indication that the animals were entering or leaving the higher altitudes.
But at the end of this week a thaw set in which continued from day to day. The hillsides were soon running with tiny rivulets56. The snow underfoot was soggy, and packed hard. The avalanches57 were worse than ever. Every hour or two there would be a rip and a roar and a swish of breaking trees, and bowlders and pebbles58 would rain down upon us. It was one of these slides which was instrumental in showing us a way across the barrier. We had abandoned our set path, and hugged the protecting face of a high cliff, knowing any slide that topped it would over-shoot us, when a mountain sheep came bounding out of a little gulley we had passed without paying it any special notice.
"'Tis the first animal we've seen as high as this," I admitted.
"If we go in there we shall need more meat," said Tawannears.
And he quickly strung his bow, notched59 an arrow and loosed. The animal dropped a scant60 fifty yards away, and I ran to pick it up. But Corlaer was close on my heels, and he hoisted61 the carcass on his broad shoulders.
"Oof," he squeaked62. "Der is still light. We don't wait to cut up der sheep. We go on, eh? Ja, we go on."
I nodded, and Tawannears was equally willing. We made no attempt to persuade the Dutchman to let us carry the dead sheep, for neither of us could have handled it and our equipment at the same time, especially on the tricky63 footing of the snow-covered rocks, with snowshoes to manage. But it was no effort at all to Peter. He strode along after us as easily as though he had been carrying a rabbit.
The entrance of the gulley was perhaps twenty feet wide. It threaded back into the hills, widening gradually, until it turned an elbow of rock and became a respectable defile64. The bed was strewn with bowlders of all sizes, and with the melting snow and a trickle65 of water that in time would become a fair-sized stream it was anything but a pleasant place for walking. The one satisfaction we had was that the side-walls were so steep as to assure us some protection from the eternal avalanches, our most dangerous foes66.
The ascent67 was easy, and toward evening we rounded another elbow and found ourselves in the throat of a lovely rock-bound valley, locked away in the heart of the hills. Above it lifted peaks that pierced the clouds, their lower flanks garbed68 in jade-green pine forests. Its floor was similarly tree-covered, but at intervals69 the forest yielded to open parks, where herds70 of mountain goat and sheep and antelope rooted for food beneath the snow. In the center was a little lake, its frozen surface glinting like a scarlet71 eye under the sunset glow.
Not a sound marred72 the magic stillness. It was like a picture painted on a screen, a highland73 solitude74, which, so far as we could determine, had never before been visited by men. Certes, the wild creatures were tamer than the stags and hinds75 I remember to have chased as a new-breeched younker in the deer-park of Foxcroft in Dorset, where first I saw the light. The blows of our axes felling trees for a hut and the crackling of the campfire were bait to lure76 them closer.
The valley was miles in length, and we reached the opposite exit too late to pass through the next day; but the second morning we dived into a replica77 of the defile by which we had passed the eastern barrier range. And that night we shivered around a scanty78 fire in a small area we cleared of snow amongst the rocks, fearful lest the constricted79 crevice80 become an impasse81 like those that had baffled us for months. But fortune stood our friend, and we emerged at high noon of the fourth day of our wanderings upon a land of rambling82 foothills. Behind us reared the snowy peaks of the Sky Mountains, seemingly more impassable than ever.
We had done what no man I have ever met could fairly claim to have done. I know there are those who pretend to have traversed the Western Wilderness83, and would prate84 of marvels done and seen; but show me the man who can make good his boast. There are Jesuit missioners and couriers du bois who have beheld85 the Sky Mountains afar, but I have the word of Charles Le Moyne, himself, that none hath come to him or his people with such a tale as we can tell.
But again I wander from my story. Patience, prithee!
The inanimate ferocity of nature lacks the dramatic quality of men's individual hates and struggles, but no achievement of my comrades and I can compare with the battles we fought against mountain, forest and stream. Mark you, a living opponent, man or animal, you can touch, hurt, visibly overcome. But what satisfaction can you wring86 from nature after beating her? None, I say, unless it be the right to live. You do not even know for sure that the victory is yours until the zest87 of combat is long forgotten.
A day's journey from the Western base of the Sky Mountains we saw men again for the first time in near five months. They were a stunted88, long-haired people, dressed in stinking89 skins, who beset90 us with arrows as we lay in a valley, but fled in panic at the first discharge of our muskets91, leaving one of their number with a wounded leg. Him we caught, but no sign of intelligence showed on his brutal93 face as Tawannears put question after question in the Dakota tongue, except when he was asked where lay the seat of Wakanda, the Great Spirit. Whether he caught the meaning of the word or was cunning enough to perceive that we were seeking a certain place, I cannot say, but he lifted his arm and pointed to the Northwest, with a chatter94 of gibberish that meant nothing to us. So we left him with his wound bound up and enough meat for a day, and departed in the direction he had indicated.
I should pursue no useful purpose if I recounted in detail our ensuing wanderings. This country beyond the Sky Mountains was more savage3 and desolate95 than the Great Plains which stretched westward96 from the Mississippi, and more varied97 in character. We found many minor98 mountain ranges, some of them not lightly to be surmounted99. We near died of thirst on deserts of parched100 grass. We hungered amongst a weird101 world of jumbled sun-baked rocks. But always we advanced in a direction north of west.
Usually game was easy to find. The Indians were more scattered than on the plains, and for the most part they were a debased race, leading a hand-to-mouth existence, Occasionally we were attacked, but they always ran at the reports of our guns, and those we captured refused even to show intelligence at the word Wakanda, so that after a while we became discouraged, and decided102 that our first prisoner had pretended recognition of it simply as a device to be rid of us.
But we had no better course to follow, and continued toward the northwest until we came to a considerable river that flowed due north, with a line of hills showing dimly in the blue distance a long way to the west.* We decided to make use of the river to save time and ease our weary bodies, and repeated our expedient103 for crossing the Mississippi, constructing a raft of tree-trunks bound together with withes; but this came to pieces in the first rough water it traversed—rough enough in all conscience—and we went on afoot as far as a village of fishing Indians, who possessed104 canoes hollowed with fire and stone hatchets out of logs. At my suggestion, we traded an extra knife with these people for a small craft barely large enough to hold us all, evaded105 by bare luck an attempt they made to trap us in our sleep, and again took to the river.
* Probably the Snake River, the border line between Idaho and Oregon.—A.D.H.S.
As we expected, this stream, after flowing north for several hundred miles, turned the flank of the distant mountains we had seen and headed west. A week later it joined a larger stream flowing from the north, which, holding south for a day's paddling, likewise was diverted to the westward.* But what interested us most was the sight of another snowy barrier, incomparably higher than the Sky Mountains, which gleamed in early morning or late afternoon across the western horizon north of the river.
* Undoubtedly106, the Columbia.—A.D.H.S.
Another two days' paddling down-stream, and we came abreast107 of an Indian village which drew an exclamation108 of excitement from Tawannears. The houses were long, oblong structures of wood, with the smokes of many fires rising above their roofs, buildings almost identical with those long houses which furnished the Iroquois their distinctive109 name; and a fleet of canoes put off from shore to intercept110 us. With the odds111 so heavy against us it seemed foolish to fight unless we were compelled, and we put by our paddles and waited with muskets ready to abide112 the issue. But our fears were immediately set at rest. These Indians were the handsomest, most straightforward113 race we had seen since leaving the Dakota. They were eager in their signs of peaceful intent, and as eagerly beckoned114 us ashore115.
"Shall we go?" I asked doubtfully.
"Why not?" returned Tawannears, shrugging his shoulders. "We have come far with little success. If these people are kind perhaps they will set our feet on the true path."
"If they are kind," I repeated.
We had no cause to regret the decision. These people, who called themselves Tsutpeli,* were both kind and considerate, and much impressed by the white skins that Corlaer and I still possessed, despite thick coats of grease and sunburn. They were likewise very intelligent. After we had been escorted to the house of a chief, in which dwelt the families of all his sons, and had eaten of several different foods, in particular a large fish which I suspect to have been a kind of salmon118, besides berries and a stew119 of roots, leaves and twigs—much to Peter's enjoyment—our hosts began a humorous attempt to strike a common ground of intercourse120 with us.
*Nez Percés—although it is difficult to understand how they got so far West.—A.D.H.S.
They would point to various objects, and give their names for them, then question us for ours; and we, or rather, Tawannears, who was spokesman for us, would reply with the Seneca terms. In this way, in the course of the weeks we spent in this village, we came to acquire a working vocabulary, and were able, with the help of signs and guess-work, to engage in simple conversations.
They told us that they had not always held the river to the point they now occupied, but had recently conquered it from a tribe they called the Chinook, who were notably121 fine sailors and who still controlled the lower reaches where were the best fisheries. With some difficulty, Tawannears made them understand the general purpose of his quest, but all the principal men disowned any knowledge of a Land of Lost Souls. Very different, however, was their reception of the legend Nadoweiswe had recounted of the abiding-place of the Great Spirit. Their faces lighted at once, and Apaiopa, the leading chief, signed to us to follow him from the lodge122.
It was sunset, and the mountain wall we had discerned to the north of the river appeared as a string of isolated123 peaks, three or four of them towering in lordly majesty above the indefinite blue outline of the lesser124 ridges. The farthest one we could see was the mightiest125. It bulked across the horizon with the effect of a monstrous126 personality, dazzling white, its crest127 ripping the clouds apart. At that distance it had the look of sitting in the heavens, detached, not earthbound.
"Tamanoas,"* said Apaiopa, pointing. "The Great Spirit! The Chinook told us about Him when we came here. Sometimes He is angry—Bang! Like this." He touched my musket92. "Sometimes He goes away into the sky. He is the Great Spirit!"
* Obviously, Mt. Rainier.—A.D.H.S.
Tawannears expelled his breath with a sigh of contentment, and I rushed into hurried speech to restrain the certain disappointment I felt he was laying up for himself.
"Nonsense, 'tis only a mountain, bigger than others," I said. "Think, brother! You will—"
"It may be a mountain," returned Tawannears quietly. "But is that a reason why it may not be the Great Spirit Himself?"
"Ja," affirmed Corlaer, "if der Greadt Spbirit come to earth, I guess he come as a mountain, eh? Ja, dot's it."
I remembered the wolf brothers, and desisted in an attempt which I knew could not succeed. And for the remainder of the evening Tawannears was occupied in securing information on the route to the base of Tamanoas. In the morning, our hosts loaded us with food and saw us on our way. They made no endeavor to restrain us. Indeed, they seemed to think we could accomplish anything. A Great Spirit, which was white, they reasoned, ought to be glad to see two white men. Tawannears, they considered, would be accepted on our guarantee. We bade them farewell with sorrow. They were the noblest Indians we found beyond the Sky Mountains.
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