We were free, but new problems arose to confront us. Our only weapons were the knives and tomahawks in our belts. We were stranded1 all but defenseless in a desolate2, unknown country. Without the protection afforded by our muskets3 'twas exceedingly doubtful whether we could travel far in face of strong hostile opposition4. The Awataba, any tribe of archers5, easily could overwhelm us. Moreover, Winter was coming on. Autumn was actually at hand. There were the twin questions of food and shelter to be answered. And finally, we had a fourth comrade to feed, protect and clothe.
But on this final score we had no occasion for worry, as events soon showed. Kachina might acclaim7 the superior accessibility which Tawannears enjoyed with the high gods, but her native self-reliance, courage and intelligence refused to acknowledge the handicap of her sex. At the very beginning of her association with us she claimed and fulfilled the rôle of an equal—proving in this, as in countless8 other ways, that she was of Spanish blood, no ordinary Indian maiden9 to accept meekly10 the drab duties of a squaw. Tawannears, somewhat to my amusement, accepted her at her own valuation.
The Seneca possessed11 a streak12 of innate13 chivalry14 entirely15 different from the normal attitude of courteous16 toleration which the People of the Long House entertain for their women. No nation anywhere that I have read of in history give their wives and mothers greater honor than these barbarians17 of the forest. 'Tis the women who select the candidates for the high rank of Royaneh, the noble group of leaders who form the Hoyarnagowar, the ruling body of the Great League. They arrange marriages, and largely control clan18 politics. A warrior19 of the Hodenosaunee says that he is the son of his mother, not of his father, when you ask his name. Beyond all other Indians, ay, and beyond all white men they yield power and place to women.
But as a race they treat women as a sex apart. The lives the men live are denied to the women. Of love, in the sense that we entertain it, an affection transcending20 the arbitrary bounds of physical affinity21, they are ignorant. Tawannears, alone, joined to the sex courtesy of the Hodenosaunee the white man's capacity for a flaming spiritual devotion. He loved with all his being, he worshiped, he felt a joyous22 sense of service based on an equality of partnership23. So much, at least, of what they sought to achieve the missionaries24 had wrought25 into his character. Let it be said for them that they supplied him with the mainspring of his life.
So it was that, having asserted the protection of his gods, the superiority of his orenda over all powers which might be brought against it, he proceeded, with the naïveté that was a cardinal26 point of his character, to admit the validity of the aid she was able to give us, aid without which, I believe, we must have perished. Nor did he then or ever treat her as a squaw, a woman to be honored in the lodge27 and debarred from warriors28' councils. And this, I must say clearly, has seemed most odd to me. For the real Gahano or any other Indian maid must naturally have adopted the habits, the ways of thought, bred into her. Yet never did Tawannears doubt the truth of the miraculous29 exploit he credited to himself.
So sure was he that he never mentioned it thereafterward. It had been a gift from Hawenneyu, a recognition of human endurance and loyalty31. Very well, then, he took what Hawenneyu gave, offered thanks and went his way. Why talk of the obvious? Anyone, so Tawannears reasoned in his blend of Christian32 philosophy and pagan faith, who strove hard enough could do what he had done. It had been done before, he believed. He did not even question the failure of Jouskeha—or Wiki—to seal his Lost Soul in the pumpkin-shell in which she had first appeared, and deliver her to him so. The gods, no more than men, must do a thing in the same way each time they undertook it. They had acted toward him as they saw fit. He refused to quibble over details. He was satisfied.
I have said that without Kachina we should have perished. Mayhap I exaggerate, but nevertheless 'tis true that she was the means of guiding us from the cliff-top above the grave of Homolobi down to the valley-floor, which we had need to pass to gain the Eastern vents6. 'Twas she who skirted the ragged33 mound34 the rock-slide had formed, and solved the first of our difficulties by retrieving35 two bows and a quiver of arrows which certain of the Awataba had cast aside in flight. As weapons these were not much, crudely made, lightly strung, with flint-tipped arrows none too straight or dependable in flight; but they were better than nothing.
Kachina, too, collected corn and vegetables from the standing36 fields and gardens on the far side of the river, which had been undamaged by the catastrophe38, and with these she cooked us tasty stews39 that helped us to fight down the pangs40 of hunger we experienced as meat-eaters. And 'twas she who knocked over a turkey of one of the village flocks and afforded us thus a more substantial meal the next evening. And she knew the best passes and ravines leading from the valley, and saved us weeks of wandering, and very likely, death from starvation or at the hand of some hostile tribe, when we resumed our journey to the East.
She was a maid as quick in wit and devotion as in temper, scornful of Peter's bulk whilst she respected his strength, affecting for me an amused toleration as of one incomparably aged37, an incumbrance to be admitted for sake of Tawannears. I think at first she was attracted by the Seneca because of the novelty of his case, the strange part it gave her to play, the whimsical sensation of being one reborn again, an accepted intimate and favorite of the gods. But there can be no question she grew to love him with devotion akin41 to his own. He was a man amongst millions, ay, in the very words she used, a Man!
Both Peter and I, whom she plagued and teased like the child she was, came to love her as a sister and a true comrade, and because of her mingling42 of Indian unconsciousness and stoicism and white woman's coy mannerisms. 'Twas Peter, for instance, insisted upon taking from her the ridiculous costume of turkey feathers, which was all she had to wear. For herself, she gave it not a second's thought. I daresay it was fairly warm if unsubstantial, and she had as little false modesty43 as might be expected in one who was convinced of her semi-divinity. Peter fashioned for her instead a neat costume of moccasins, breeches and coat, which he contrived44 from his own raiment, going afterward30 almost as naked as the Awataba until good fortune threw in our way the chance to replenish45 ourselves. But I am again galloping46 in advance of my story, an ill trick, and to be attributed to the garrulity47 of old memories stirred afresh.
With weapons and food for the time being, our next concern was as to shelter for the Winter, and on this point we were all agreed: we desired to get as far as possible from this valley of death before the cold weather and the terrible snows prevented traveling, and inasmuch as Tawannears' search was ended there was no question but that we should go east. Had we been by ourselves we three would have elected to follow the stream which flowed through the plantations48 of what had been Homolobi—and we should have been led hundreds of miles to the southward. It was by Kachina's advice that we chose a ravine which carried us due east into a more favorable country, where game was abundant.
We had feared the attentions of the remnants of the Awataba, but if any were left they gave us a wide berth49, nor did we see signs of other savages50, until we came to a considerable river some four days' journey from the edge of the rock desert, where we were attacked by a small band of stalwart warriors, whom Kachina called Navahu. They came at us boldly, seeing how few we were, and we pretended to flee behind a thicket51; but as they approached us there we charged upon them with heavy clubs of wood that Peter had cut, and at the sight of our white, bearded faces they lost all their ardor52 and tried to escape, crying that we were Naakai, by which, it seems, they meant Spaniards. We overtook and plundered53 several of them, besides raiding their camp on the river-bank, and so became possessed of some handsomely woven robes or blankets, which Kachina assured us were highly prized by all the tribes in these regions.
Hitherto Peter and I had been obliged to content ourselves with clubs to supplement our knives and tomahawks, it being manifestly the wisest policy to award our two bows to Tawannears and Kachina, who were more expert archers than we. Now we acquired two more bows and nearly two quivers full of arrows, and plucking up our courage, deemed ourselves equipped to encounter any resistance short of musketry. We swam the river without difficulty, and continued east, being halted presently by a barrier of foothills beyond a smaller stream. Long since we had passed the confines of Kachina's narrow geographical54 knowledge, and after discussing the situation we decided55 to follow this stream north.
When it turned abruptly56 west three days afterward we were crestfallen58, but we agreed to keep to its banks for one day more; and our perseverance59 was rewarded, for we discovered that it flowed into a larger river, apparently60 the one we had first crossed, which seemed to come down from the northeast. 'Twas in this direction we felt vaguely61 that we should aim, and we made the best progress the broken ground afforded. Several days' rough traveling brought us to a third stream, which joined our river from the east. Ahead loomed62 range after range of rocky peaks; southeast the prospect* was also forbidding. We made the only decision possible, and headed east up the course of this new river. Of course, it might have carried us anywhere, as in this land the streams seemed to be coming from and flowing toward all directions; but it was our good fortune that its head waters were high on the western slopes of the Sky Mountains, and we were able to Winter in a glorious valley such as had been our home the year previous.
* Ormerod's course grows increasingly difficult to trace, but I hazard a guess he came out of some point in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, crossed the Grand and followed that river to the Gunnison.—A.D.H S.
We built a comfortable cabin of two rooms, and had all the food we needed. Indeed, we grew fat and sleek63, and Peter, with his clever hands, made us new garments of deerskin. The blankets we had captured from the Navahu kept us warm. And we whiled away the hours when we were not hunting or working on pelts64 by cutting and straightening arrow shafts65, chipping and fastening stone-heads and adjusting the feathering. We were better armed than ever, and Peter and I improved in our shooting, although we could never hope to rival archers like Tawannears and Kachina, who had drawn66 bows since childhood—just as they were incomparably less expert than the marvelous bowmen of the Plains tribes, who spend their whole lives in attaining67 proficiency68 in this weapon, thanks to their being entirely dependent upon it and unable to secure firearms.
Spring set us afoot again. We delayed our departure from the cabin until we were certain the last snow storm had blanketed the mountains, but once we started we moved rapidly, as Tawannears had shaped snow-shoes for all of us, and the soggy crust packed firm. Two weeks' journey fetched us across a divide of land, a mountain-ridge running due north and south; and we descended69 by a series of valleys which carried us out of the mountains through a gateway70 betwixt two gigantic peaks that reared skyward many miles apart.*
* This tends to confirm the theory that Ormerod followed the Gunnison east, crossed the Continental71 Divide near Gannon City, and came down into the valley of the Arkansas, with Pike's Peak on his left and Spanish Peak visible in the distance.—A.D.H.S.
We encountered a river flowing east, which already was gathering72 size and force from the melting snows of countless minor73 streams. For want of more accurate guidance we followed its Southern bank, abandoning it twice, when it seemed to deviate74 to the north, and striking eastward75 in a bee line, although in each of these instances we picked up the river again.
On this comparatively low tableland the snow had disappeared, and the long grass and foliage76 were greening out. There was no lack of antelope77 and deer, and we saw frequent herds79 of buffalo80, the advance-guards of the vast migrations81 which were shifting from the Southern feeding-grounds. We were now in the country of the horse Indians, those wide-ranging tribes whose bands ride hundreds of miles for a handful of booty or a scalp, lovers of fighting by preference, and we were at pains to avoid all contact with them. Twice we hid in the grass to let gorgeously feathered parties ride past. Once we lay in a patch of timber by the river-bank, unable to move, and watched a band make camp.
But we could not hope to be successful always, especially as the country became flatter and less adaptable82 for concealment83 as we traveled east. There arrived a day when the river looped north, and we abandoned it for the third time, squaring our backs to the westering sun and entrusting84 ourselves to the open plains. The grass here was still short of its midsummer luxuriance. Cover was negligible, and the land rolled evenly in gigantic swells85. We were climbing one of these, weary and anxious to reach a water-supply, as a war-party rode over the crest57, fifty painted warriors in breech-clouts and moccasins, long hair stuck with feathers, white shields and lance-points glistening87, quivers bristling88 with arrows.
They howled their amazement89, and swept down upon us, two of their number racing90 up the swell86 behind us to make sure we were not the bait of a larger band, lying in ambush91. We bunched together, and made the peace sign, arms upthrust, palms out. But the newcomers rode wearily around us in a contracting circle, their lances slung92, arrows notched93, ready to overwhelm us with a rain of shafts. They carried hornbound bows that could shoot twice as far as ours. When the scouts94 scurried95 back with yells of reassurance96, they reduced the circle they had strung until we were fairly within bow-shot from all sides. Then a chief, resplendent in eagle's feathers, hailed us in a sonorous97 dialect marked by rolling r's. Tawannears started at the words.
"They are the Nemene, or Comanche," he exclaimed. "We are in grave danger, brothers. These men are the mightiest98 raiders on the plains."
"Shall we fight them?" I asked.
"What does der chief say?" asked Peter. "Can you understand?"
"A part. I have heard the Comanches talk when they came North to trade with the Dakota. I will try them in Dakota."
Tawannears shouted his answer, and the Comanche chief summoned a warrior to interpret.
"He asks who we are," Tawannears explained swiftly after a brief interchange of words. "I have told him. He says that we must come with him to his camp."
There was another interchange of remarks.
"I have told him we are hurrying to our own land, that we mean no harm to his people, but he will not agree to let us go. He says we are on his people's land, and we should have asked permission to come here. I will say that we were looking for him, but——"
Once more the shouted questions and answers, accompanied by signs and gestures, and the ring of warriors commenced to weave around us again. The chief rode leisurely101 to one side, and regarded us indifferently. His interpreter shouted two words.
"It is no use, brothers," said Tawannears. "We are to throw down our weapons or they shoot."
"Is it a question of dying now or later?" I asked resentfully.
"It looks so."
"Let us die here in the open," proposed Kachina fearlessly.
"Nein," spoke102 up Peter. "If we fight here, we die, Dot's sure. If we go with dem, we die—maype. Berhaps not. Not sure, eh? We petter go, andt wait andt see. Ja!"
The Dutchman was right. We dropped our weapons, and the ring of Comanches swirled103 in upon itself. We were suddenly in the midst of a sweating mob of men and horses, scowling104 faces bent105 over us, rough hands snatching at our possessions; rawhide106 thongs107 were lashed108 about our waists, and the cavalcade109 dashed away between the swells, each of us running fast to keep up with the horseman who had us in tow, plenty of careless hoofs110 ready to beat our brains out if we stumbled. But after the first mile they lessened111 the pace, and toward evening we rode into a circle of teepees pitched on the bank of a tiny river.
On one side was a grove112 of trees, reaching to the high-water mark. Opposite, the pony113 herd78 grazed in a natural meadow. We were bound hand and foot and suffered to lie on the grass betwixt the easternmost of the teepees and the horse herd, the adolescents of the herd-guard being summoned to watch us. The chief and his warriors, after exhibiting us to a group of several hundred people, including women and children, shooed them all away and left us, evidently to decide how to treat us—which, apparently, meant how to end us.
The shadows lengthened114 steadily115, but nobody brought us food. Now and then a man lounged over to test our bindings or look at us. Women and children who sought to stare at us further were importantly warned off by the adolescents of the herd-guard. The light was failing, too—so much so that I was surprised at feeling a cold muzzle116 thrust against my cheek. A delighted whinny greeted me.
I twisted my head around, and looked up into the quivering nostrils117 of a mottled stallion. He nuzzled me again, whinnying with every appearance of recognition, his white mane ruffling118 in pleasure. I spoke to him softly, and he buried his muzzle in my neck, pawing with his forehoof as though inviting119 me to rise and mount him. Yes, there was no doubt of it. He was Sunkawakan-kedeshka, the spotted120 horse, that I had tamed at Nadoweiswe's Teton village in the North before we first crossed the Sky Mountains.
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89 amazement | |
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90 racing | |
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92 slung | |
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93 notched | |
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94 scouts | |
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97 sonorous | |
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98 mightiest | |
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101 leisurely | |
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103 swirled | |
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104 scowling | |
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106 rawhide | |
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111 lessened | |
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112 grove | |
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113 pony | |
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114 lengthened | |
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