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XXIII LOOKING FOR SITTING BULL
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“How many Injuns will there be, do you think?” invited “Autie” Reed, excitedly, of Ned.
This was the evening of June 21. The expedition had been out from Fort Lincoln over a month. Now they were in camp at the mouth of the Rosebud1 River, on the south side of the Yellowstone River in southeastern Montana—just beyond the Tongue River where in the summer of 1873 General Custer had first met the Sioux in battle and had almost been cut off, and Doctor Honzinger and Sutler Baliran had been killed by Rain-in-the-Face.
No Indians had been met. Many of the officers and men were of the opinion that none would be found, and that all would escape. But when here the searchers were, at last, right in the enemy’s home, it looked as though a fight was likely to occur soon. General Gibbon’s “Montana column” was encamped across the Yellowstone. They had marched from the west down the north bank, and had reported that no Sioux had traveled north, but that they had seen hostile Indians watching them from the south bank. Therefore[275] in the opinion of General Gibbon the Sioux were still south of the Yellowstone, in the wild hunting-grounds of the Big Horn and the Powder Rivers.
General Crook2 the Gray Fox was down there, with his soldiers. He had not been heard from, but it was expected that as he approached he would be driving the Sioux before him. Nobody knew that on June 17 General Crook had been met on the upper Rosebud by Sitting Bull’s warriors3 and had been forced back. The red general had out-matched the white general. The Sioux were better warriors than the Apaches.
Major Reno had been ordered by General Terry to take his portion of the Seventh and scout4 southward, to examine the country for Indian signs and perhaps to sight General Crook. He had not sighted General Crook, who was a hundred miles distant, shut off by a wide stretch of rough, perilous5 country. But swinging in a circle back he had come, with news that on the Rosebud River he had struck a large trail, trending up-river, made by many Sioux. This was news indeed, and welcome news.
Steamboats ran on the Yellowstone. The Government supply boat Far West, Captain Grant
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rosebud
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| n.蔷薇花蕾,妙龄少女 | |
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warriors
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| 武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 ) | |
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scout
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perilous
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marsh
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infantry
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cavalry
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lodges
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scouts
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| 侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员 | |
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| (猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说 | |
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gall
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regiment
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natty
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saluted
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| 矮种马,小型马( pony的名词复数 ); £25 25 英镑 | |
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sergeant
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concealed
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mighty
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| (使马)飞奔,奔驰( gallop的过去式和过去分词 ); 快速做[说]某事 | |
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smearing
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hatchet
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leisurely
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onward
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battalions
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battalion
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veered
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| 兽群( herd的名词复数 ); 牧群; 人群; 群众 | |
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