RECREATION. 



Volume HI. OCTOBER, 1895. Number 4. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager. 



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A DEER DRIVE WITH SPOKANE INDIANS. 



Lieut. W. R. Abercrombie, U. S. A. 



4 i TACK'.JACK! nika nanich mica- thawing out their leggings and moc- 



| hiac-hyos cold." (Jack I want casins before a roaring fire. At grey 



^ to see you, andhurry, it's cold.) dawn I was awakened by having the 



It was about two o'clock one bitter blankets and buffalo robes pulled off 



January morning, in 1882, while in me. This was an intimation that it 



cantonement at what is now known as was time to clat-a-wah (go); so 



Fort Spokane, Washington, that my after swallowing some hot coffee, 



friend, the sub-chief of the Spokane bacon, and frying-pan bread, I found 



Indians, Or-ah-pah-eu, came to my my way through the darkness and 



cabin to notify me that a bunch of falling snow to a little shack 1 had 



black tail deer, were corralled in a built, back of my cabin, where I kept 



creek bottom near his lodge about my horses and hunting outfit. ( )n 



12 miles from our station, and my saddle horse " Stubbie," a thick- 



that the Indians were out for their set, short-legged, roan, half-bred 



annual hunt. From the scraps of cayuse — and a dandy to break trail 



conversation I caught as Or and I packed my Whitman saddle, 250 



his companions unsaddled and rounds service ammunition, an extra 



brought their traps into the cabin, heavy mission blanket, some burnt 



I learned that the snow was still fall- cork matches in a water-tight box 



ing and about 18 inches deep. (made of two empty cartridge 



After they had struck a light, started shells), a pair of bottles, my rifle, 

 fire, and put on a pot for " muck- my hunting knives, a chopper and 

 a-muck" (something to eat), I sat skinner, two pairs of woolen socks, 

 up in my buffalo robes and listened and two pairs of heavy moccasins. 

 to their plans for the hunt. They For my mare, Bess, 1 had a corn- 

 had left a temporary camp, about plete Indian pack, consisting oi two 

 four miles up the Spokane, where raw-hide bags 2y 2 by 2 feel with 

 they had a " dug-out" to ferry over a flap, and loops on top to hang on 

 our " pack-outfits; " and we had best the cross tree of the pack' saddle, 

 leave within a few hours before a These bags were filled with commis- 

 possible thaw and freeze, for it saries. The sacks werean invention ol 

 would then be impossible for us to the Hudson Bay Company, raw hide 

 get over the divide between the being the only material tough enough 

 Spokane river and the Ins-tah- to protect the green and red br 

 peats-ah creek, where we hoped to cloth they carried over the moun- 

 get our shooting. A deer very sel- tains from the thorn brush and sharp 

 dom moves about during a snow edges of the rocks along the trail. 

 storm and as the bunch in question On top of the pack came the coffee- 

 had been spotted, it was only a mat- pot, frying pan, liquid snake medi- 

 ter of hard riding to get over the cine, and a small short-handled ax 

 divide before a crust should form, encased in a leather cover. 



The last impression I had before All being ready we laid ourcoi 



falling asleep was of the Indians for the "traders' store" where we 



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