BEGINNING THE RETURN JOURNEY— 
THE BEAVER 
We camped outside of the fort. Various 
parties of Indians and trappers arrived 
during this time, and camped by us. 
The trappers were mostly French-Ca- 
bs nadians, preparing for a fresh cam- 
paign against the beavers. The Indians, chiefly Flat- 
heads, led a life that suited them perfectly. They 
gambled and sang all night long, and slept during the 
day. Near the fort were some graves. In one of 
them rested Antoine Godin, an adventurous moun- 
taineer and a bitter foe of the Blackfeet. It was he 
who brought on in 1832 the bloody fight with the 
Blackfeet at Pierre’s Hole, related in W. Irving’s 
“Rocky Mountains,” by treacherously grasping the 
hand of their leader, while another shot him. The 
Blackfeet after that harbored the bitterest enmity 
for him. Some years later a band of Blackfeet ap- 
peared near Fort Hall, on the right bank of the Snake 
I REMAINED eight days at Fort Hall. 
