Without their horses and mules, they could do nothing.

It only remained for them to wait for the return of Mr.McCoy and his party, who had promised, after visiting Fort Walla Walla, to rendezvous at Fort Hall.
The Blackfeet Indians were at that time, forty years ago, the terror of the whole region.

It is said that the warlike tribe numbered thirty thousand souls.

Of course there could not have been any very accurate estimate of the population.

Not long after this the small-pox prevailed, with awful fatality.