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"They have lost the trail of
the squatter, and are on its hunt. These buffaloes have crossed their
path, and in chasing the animals, bad luck has led them in open sight
of the hill on which the brood of Ishmael have harboured. Do you see
yon birds watching for the offals of the beast they have killed?
Therein is a moral, which teaches the manner of a prairie life. A band
of Pawnees are outlying for these very Siouxes, as you see the
buzzards looking down for their food, and it behoves us, as Christian
men who have so much at stake, to look down upon them both. Ha! what
brings yonder two skirting reptiles to a stand? As you live, they have
found the place where the miserable son of the squatter met his
death!"
The old man was not mistaken. Weucha, and a savage who accompanied
him, had reached that spot, which has already been mentioned as
furnishing the frightful evidences of violence and bloodshed. There
they sat on their horses, examining the well-known signs, with the
intelligence that distinguishes the habits of Indians.


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