But their camp-fires soon blazed brightly.
Rich viands of choice cuts of venison and other game, were cooked by artistic hands.

And the mountain springs afforded them cool and delicious water.

With ravenous appetites they partook of a feast which any gourmand might covet.

And then wrapped in their furs, and surrounded by the silence and solitude of the wilderness, with the whole wild scene illumined by their fires, they fell asleep.

In accordance with invariable custom a careful guard was set.
They had one cause of solicitude, which to any person unfamiliar with mountain life would have been very serious; the place abounded with rattlesnakes.