Chapter 36
Mr. Hunt Overtakes the Advance Party.--Pierre Dorion, and His Skeleton Horse.--A Shoshonie Camp.--A Justifiable Outrage.--Feasting on Horse Flesh.--Mr. Crooks Brought to the Camp.--Undertakes to Relieve His Men.--The Skin Ferry- Boat.--Frenzy of Prevost.--His Melancholy Fate.-Enfeebled State of John Day.-Mr. Crooks Again Left Behind.-The Party Emerge From Among the Mountains.--Interview With Shoshonies.-- A Guide Procured to Conduct the Party Across a Mountain.-- Ferriage Across Snake River.--Reunion With Mr Crook's Men.-- Final Departure From the River. ALL that day, Mr. Hunt and his three comrades travelled without eating. At night they made a tantalizing supper on their beaver skin, and were nearly exhausted by hunger and cold. The next day, December 10th, they overtook the advance par
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