When the afternoon was mostly gone, Baldy declared that they had gone
the better part of a hundred miles.

The boy could hardly credit it at first; but, when he recalled that
they had scarcely paused for seven hours, and had gone a portion of
the distance at a very high rate, he saw that his friend was not far
out of the way.

It lacked yet several hours of dusk, when the trapper exclaimed:

'Yonder is an emigrant trainnow make for 'em!'

CHAPTER VIII. INDIANS.

THE STEAM man was headed straight toward the emigrant train, and
advanced at a speed which rapidly came up with it.

They could see, while yet a considerable distance away, that they had
attracted notice, and the emigrants had paused and ware surveying them
with a wonder which it would be difficult to express.

It is said that when Robert Fulton's first steamboat ascended the
Hudson, it created a consternation and terror such as had never before
been knownmany believing that it was the harbinger of the final
destruction of the world.

Of course, at this late day, no such excitement can be created by any
human inventionbut the sight of a creature speeding over the country,
impelled by steam, and bearing such a grotesque resemblance to a