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Show 280 PERSO~AL ADVENTURES night a11d cloaks by day, they fetched almost fabulous prices. With the knowledge of these facts, and an entou?"age that \Vas far frorn reassuring, we felt that we should be safer on the road than at the mission. We accordingly purehased so1ne corn for our horses, and proceeded on our route. A fe\v rniles further on, we found ourselves between lofty hills, those to the right being covered \vith wild oats, whilst on the left everything looked black and dreary, all traces of vegetation having been burned up by the Indians, \Vho sometimes adopted this 1nethod of annoying the Yankee traveller. On arriving at a sort of hollow, filled with \Vater, whieh lay opposite a narrow and fertile valley, shut in by a couple of hills, we dismounted, and prepared to encamp, there being plenty of grass for our horses, who could roam about without being picketed. On glancing at one of the most abrupt .·and loftiest of the precipices by which we were surrounded, I observed some cows browsing, at an immense height, on the sides of a declivity so steep - ~ ' ,', 0:-. THE ROAD TO TilE MlNES-b,N C,\l\11 'I·~ C' F()l1 THE NIGHT |
