CHAPTER XIX.
The Great Bend of the Missouri--Crooks and M'Lellan Meet With Two of Their Indian Opponents--Wanton Outrage of a White Man the Cause of Indian Hostility--Dangers and Precautions.-An Indian War Party .-- Dangerous Situation of Mr.Hunt .-- A Friendly Encampment .-- Feasting and Dancing .-- Approach of Manuel Lisa and His Party--.A Grim Meeting Between Old Rivals .-- Pierre Dorion in a Fury .-- A Burst of chivalry.
ON the afternoon of the following day (June 1st) they arrived at the great bend, where the river winds for about thirty miles round a circular peninsula, the neck of which is not above two thousand yards across.

On the succeeding morning, at an early hour, they descried two Indians standing on a high bank of the river, waving and spreading their buffalo robes in signs of amity.

They immediately pulled to shore and landed.

On approaching the savages, however, the latter showed evident symptoms of alarm, spreading out their arms horizontally, according to their mode of supplicating clemency.

The reason was soon explained.