CHAPTER IV.

Kit Carson and two Companions plan a Hunt for themselves--The Great Success met with--Return to Taos--Sale of the Beaver Fur--Kit Carson joins Captain Lee and goes on a Trading Expedition--Winter Quarters--Kit Carson is sent in Pursuit of a Thief--Overtakes and is obliged to shoot the Runaway--Property recovered--The Return to Camp--The Sale of Goods--Kit Carson joins Fitzpatrick and Party--Kit Carson organizes a Hunting Party--His Encounter with two Grizzly Bears--The Summer Rendezvous--Kit Carson joins fifty Trappers and goes to the Country of the Blackfeet Indians--Annoyances received from these Indians--Winter Quarters in 1832--Horses Stolen--Kit Carson and eleven Men in Pursuit--A Parley--A Fight--Kit Carson severely wounded--His great Sufferings and Fortitude--His Convalescence--The Retreat--A New Expedition--A Braggadocio--Kit Carson Fights a Duel and Wounds his man--Duels in the Rocky Mountains in Olden Times, 68