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Title: Rocky Mountain life; or, Startling scenes and perilous adventures in the far West, during an expedition of three years
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
Subjects: Hunting -- United States Rocky Mountains West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Wentworth and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ageurs, who await-ed the slow process of cooking. Some were seen with thin slices from thelarder, barely heated through by the agency of a few coals, retreating fromthe admiring throng to enjoy solo their half-cooked morsels,—others, paringoflT bit by bit from the fresh-turned hissing roasts, while their opposite re-ceived the finishing operation of the fire,—and others, tossing their evertedboudins into the flames, and in a few seconds withdrawing for the repast,each seizing his ample share, bemouthed the end in quick succession tosever the chosen esculent, which, while yielding to the eager teeth, coursedminiature rivulets of oily exuberance from the extremities of the activeorifice, bedaubing both face and chin, and leaving its delighted eater in allt,he glories of grease! i^very man had now become his own cook, and, not to be backward, Iclosed in with the overture. Seizing a frying-pan replete with tempting levies from tlie fleece, I ■^D, ,iirii-i life ca C3»^hi > o n CJ
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>« a > J JO > iii^Plfis • ( I r « • 4 t BRADYS ISLAND. 69 twice subjected it to its duty, and as often its delicious contents found am-ple store-house; and even yet my longing appetite seemed loth to cryhold, enough! The agreeable odor exhaled from the drij)pings of the frying flesh, con-tained in the pan, invited the taste,—a temptation claiming me for its sub-ject. Catching up the vessel, a testing sip made way for the whole of itscontents, at a single draught,—full six gills ! Strange as it may seem, Idid not experience the least unpleasant feeling as the result of my extraor-dinary potation. The stomach never rebels against bufllilo-fat. Persons, subsisting en-tirely upon the flesh of these animals, prefer an assortment of at least onethird solid depouille. The voyageur is never more satisfied than when he has a good supplyof baflalo-beef at his command. It is then his greasy visage bespeakscojitont, and his jocund voice and merry laugh evince the deep-felt plea

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