Excerpt from Sketches of the West During the night the chief informed his band of the determina tion of the white hunter, and when Snowden took his departure for the north next morning, the whole village assembled to bid him godspeed, in their simple yet emphatic way, upon what they conceived to be a most desperate undertaking. They beat their rude drums, danced up and down and sang their wildest songs until the hunter was lost both to sight and hearing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.