Thus with the trapper it was always either victory or death.
These hostile warriors were punished with a severity never to be forgotten.

The fugitives carried far and wide to other roving tribes the tidings of their disaster.

The bold trappers proceeded on their way, encountering no more serious molestation.

Smoke upon the distant hills indicated that their march was watched.

If a trap was set at any distance from the night's encampment, it was pretty surely stolen.