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He was followed by all the party, who arranged
themselves around his person, in a deep and respectful silence.
"The earth is very large," the chief commenced, after a pause of that
true dignity which his counterfeit had so miserably affected; "why can
the children of my great white father never find room on it?"
"Some among them have heard that their friends in the prairies are in
want of many things," returned the trapper; "and they have come to see
if it be true. Some want, in their turns, what the red men are willing
to sell, and they come to make their friends rich, with powder and
blankets."
"Do traders cross the big river with empty hands?"
"Our hands are empty because your young men thought we were tired, and
they have lightened us of our load. They were mistaken; I am old, but
I am still strong."
"It cannot be. Your load has fallen in the prairies. Show my young men
the place, that they may pick it up before the Pawnees find it."
"The path to the spot is crooked, and it is night.


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