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their bosoms, was' revealed,-as men; will reveal such
''things in- the isolation of sea-voyages, or the solitary pres-
ence of majestic Nature.
  To the veteran mountaineer there must have been
something soothing in the care and friendship of the.
youth of twenty-two, with his daring disposition, his frank-
'-ness his: cheerful humor, and his good looks,;-for our Joe
was growing to be a maturely handsome man-tall, broad-
-shouildered, straight, with: plenty of flesh, and none too
much of it; a- Southerner's olive complexion; frank, dark'
feyes, and  cl               chin. What though 'in the
matter: of dress he was ignorant of the latest styles -
Grace- impjartselegance even to- the trapper's beaver-skin
ceap 'and-' blanket capote.
  At the end of forty days as many as it took to drown
,a world, Sublette' found himself well enough to ride; and
the two set out on their search -for camp. But now other
adventures awaited them.   On a fork of Green River,
they came suddenly' upon ha band of Snake Indians feed-
ing 0theirhorses.  As soon as theSnakes discovered the
white men, they set up a yell, and made an instinctive
crush for -their horses.  Now was the critical moment.
'One, word passed between the travelers, and.. they made, a
dash past the savages, right into the village, and never
slacked rein until they threw themselves from their horses
at the door of the Medicine lodge. This is a large and fa n-
-'cifully decorated lodge, which stands in the centre of a vil-
lage, and like the churches of Christians, is sacred.  Once
inside of this, the strangers were safe for the present; their
-blood could not be shed there.
  The warriors of the village soon followed Sublette and
;:Meek'' into their strange' house of refuge.  In half an
hour' it was filled. Not a word was addressed to -the
strangers; -nor by them to the Indians, who talked among



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