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FRIENDLY INDIANS.
plentiful at this time, we feared they might be out on a hunt, and just at present we were not hankering after sport of the Indian fighting kind. So I preposed to Jim Bridger that we hire four of these young Pimas to ac- company us through the Ute country, knowing that the Pimas were on good terms with all their neighboring tribes. Jim said that we had nothing to give them, having neither jewelry or beads with us.
I told him that I would spare them a horse if we could get them to go, I had four horses with me, while Jim
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Sitting around the camp fire, smoking and cracking jokes.
wily bad three. He told me to go ahead and make any kind of a bargain with them I liked and he would stand his portion.
