Chapter 6
THE TWILIGHT TALE.That eve I spoke those words again,
And then she hearkened what I said.
Dante Rossetti.
The next day the Indians had a great hunt. A circle of men on
foot and on horseback was drawn around a large tract of forest on
the western side of the Willamette River. Gradually, with much
shouting, hallooing, and beating of bushes, the circle closed upon
the game within it, like the folds of a mighty serpent.
There was a prodigious s*******r, a mad scene of butchery, in
which the Indians exulted like fiends. Late in the afternoon they
returned to camp, stained with blood and loaded with the spoils of
the chase. Snoqualmie distinguished himself by killing a large
bear, and its claws, newly severed and bleeding, were added to his
already ample necklace of simil
