204 LIFE IN THE FAR WEST. 



These two once more betook themselves to trapping, the Yellow 

 Stone being their chief hunting-ground. But we must again leap 

 over months and years, rather than conduct the reader through 

 all their perilous wanderings, and at last bring him back to the 

 camp on Bijou, where we first introduced him to our mount- 

 aineers ; and as we have already followed them on the Arapaho 

 trail, which they pursued to recover their stolen animals from a 

 band of that nation, we will once again seat ourselves at the camp 

 on Boiling Spring, where they had met a strange hunter on a 

 solitary expedition to the Bayou Salade, whose double-barreled 

 rifle had excited their wonder and curiosity. 



From him they learned also that a large band of Mormons were 

 wintering on the Arkansas, en route to the Great Salt Lake and 

 Upper Cahfornia ; and as our hunters had before fallen in with 

 the advanced guard of these fanatic emigrants, and felt no little 

 wonder that such helpless people should undertake so long a jour- 

 ney through the wilderness, the stranger narrated to them the 

 liistory of the sect, wliich we shall shortly transcribe for the 

 "benefit of the reader. 



