The Return from California to New Mexico--San Fernando and the Peublo
of Los Angelos--Description of these Peublos--Passports demanded at
Los Angelos--Trouble with the Mexican Authorities--Kit Carson sent on
with the Pack Animals--One Trapper shoots another--The Mexicans become
frightened--Indians come into Camp with their Weapons concealed--Cool
Reception, by Kit Carson--Arrival at Santa Fé and Taos--Money realized
soon parted with--Carson joins another Expedition--The Rivers trapped
on--Four Men Killed by Blackfeet Indians--Kit Carson joins Gaunt's
Party--The Parks--Winter Quarters--Crow Indian Depredations--Kit
Carson and his Party in Pursuit--the Fight--Winter on the
Arkansas--Another Expedition--Two Deserters--Kit Carson sent
in Pursuit--The Fate of the Runaways--Adventures with
Indians--Hair-breadth Escape made by Kit Carson, 42


CHAPTER IV.

Kit Carson and two Companions plan a Hunt for themselves--The Great
Success met with--Return to Taos--Sale of the Beaver Fur--Kit
Carson joins Captain Lee and goes on a Trading Expedition--Winter
Quarters--Kit Carson is sent in Pursuit of a Thief--Overtakes and
is obliged to shoot the Runaway--Property recovered--The Return to
Camp--The Sale of Goods--Kit Carson joins Fitzpatrick and Party--Kit
Carson organizes a Hunting Party--His Encounter with two Grizzly
Bears--The Summer Rendezvous--Kit Carson joins fifty Trappers and
goes to the Country of the Blackfeet Indians--Annoyances received from
these Indians--Winter Quarters in 1832--Horses Stolen--Kit Carson
and eleven Men in Pursuit--A Parley--A Fight--Kit Carson severely
wounded--His great Sufferings and Fortitude--His Convalescence--The
Retreat--A New Expedition--A Braggadocio--Kit Carson Fights a Duel and