3. Had ceased to brag, and ten score martial clowns
Why “clowns”? See Introduction.
6. A withering blast the arid South still blew,
What is “South”? Why capitalized? Did Homer and Vergil personify the winds?
9. Southward before the Great White Hunter’s face:
Who is the Great White Hunter? What is the time of year?
13. With eighty trappers up the dwindling Grand,
Why “dwindling”?
14. Bound through the weird, unfriending barren-land
“Unfriending” whom?