CHAPTER VI.
The Rendezvous.
Fair in the Wilderness .-- The Encampment .-- Dispersion of the Trappers .-- Hostility of the Blackfeet .-- Camp on the Big Snake River .-- The Blackfeet Marauders .-- The Pursuit .-- The Calumet .-- The Battle .-- Kit Carson wounded .-- The Rencontre with Shunan .-- The Defeat and Humiliation of Shunan .-- Remarkable Modesty of Carson .-- Testimony to Mr.Carson's Virtues.
In the morning the party fortunately found, in one of their traps, a beaver, upon whose not very palatable flesh they breakfasted.

The tail of a beaver when well cooked, is esteemed quite a delicacy.

But one tail would not furnish sufficient food for three men.

Fifteen days passed away before Kit Carson's little band was reunited with the larger company of Messrs.

Fitzpatrick and Bridger.