Chapter 47
Ben Jones and a Grizzly Bear.--Rocky Heights--Mountain Torrents.--Traces of M'Lellan.--Volcanic Remains--Mineral Earths.--Peculiar Clay for Pottery.--Dismal Plight of M'Lellan.--Starvation.--Shocking Proposition of a Desperate Man.--A Broken-Down Bull.--A Ravenous Meal.--Indian Graves-- Hospitable Snakes.-A Forlorn Alliance. AS the travellers were now in a dangerous neighborhood, where the report of a rifle might bring the savages upon them, they had to depend upon their old beaver-trap for subsistence. The little river on which they were encamped gave many "beaver signs," and Ben Jones set off at daybreak, along the willowed banks, to find a proper trapping-place. As he was making his way among the thickets, with his trap on his shoulder and his rifle in his hand, he heard a crushing sou
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