But when a little time had passed,
even this secondary object attracted the attention of the Tetons. Then
it was that the trapper first learned, by the shout of triumph and the
long drawn yell of delight, which burst at once from a hundred
throats, as well as by the terrible name, which filled the air, that
his youthful friend was no other than that redoubtable and hitherto
invincible warrior, Hard-Heart.
CHAPTER XXV
What, are ancient Pistol and you friends, yet?
--Shakspeare.
The curtain of our imperfect drama must fall, to rise upon another
scene. The time is advanced several days, during which very material
changes had occurred in the situation of the actors. The hour is noon,
and the place an elevated plain, that rose, at no great distance from
the water, somewhat abruptly from a fertile bottom, which stretched
along the margin of one of the numberless water-courses of that
region. The river took its rise near the base of the Rocky Mountains,
and, after washing a vast extent of plain, it mingled its waters with
a still larger stream, to become finally lost in the turbid current of
the Missouri.
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