[16] Bent's Indian trading fort on the Arkansa.
[17] Meaning,—if that's what you mean? The "stick" is tied to the beaver trap by a string; and, floating on the water, points out its position, should a beaver have carried it away.
[18] Scalped.
[19] Soles made of buffalo hide.
[20] The Hudson Bay Company, having amalgamated with the American North West Company, is known by the name 'North West' to the southern trappers. Their employés usually wear Canadian capôtes.
[21] A spice of the devil.
[22] "Euker," "poker," and "seven-up," are the fashionable games of cards.
[23] Antelope are frequently called "goats" by the mountaineers.
[24] An Indian is always a "heap" hungry or thirsty—loves a "heap"—is a "heap" brave—in fact, "heap" is tantamount to very much.
[25] The young untried warriors of the Indians are thus called.