| The Fall Hunt—McCoy of the Hudson's Bay Company organizes a Trapping Party
which Kit Carson joins—The Hunt—Scarcity of Beaver on Humboldt River—The
Party is divided—Kit Carson with a majority of the Men goes to Fort Hall—Hardships
and Privations met with—Buffalo Hunt—All their Animals stolen in the
Night by a Party of Blackfeet Indians—Arrival of McCoy from Fort Walla Walla—The
Rendezvous—Kit Carson joins a strong Band—The Small Pox among the
Blackfeet Indians—The Crow Indians on good terms with the Whites—Intense
Cold—Immense Herds of Buffalo—Danger of their goring to death the Horses—The
Spring Hunt—The Blackfeet Indian Village overtaken—A desperate Fight
with these Indians—The Rendezvous—Sir William Stuart and a favorite Missionary—Kit
Carson goes on a Trading Expedition to the Navajoe Indians—The Return—He
accepts the post of Hunter of the Trading Post at Brown's Hole, | [106] |