midday
He ate heartily and at once pushed on , determined to have some fresh game before night if possible . Such thoughts as he sent back to the Nez Percé camp did not include the idea that it was already breaking up to follow him ; still less did he have any imagination of thirsty white people toiling across a waterless plain along that buffalo trail . He was in no danger of losing the way , for his path was walled in for him . Towards midday it ceased to go up , up , up , and the chasm widened into a great rocky cañon of wonderful ruggedness and beauty . Two Arrows had been among the mountains before , in other ranges , and this seemed to him very much like what he might have expected . Now , however , the trail turned to the right and picked its way along the steep side of the varying slopes . Here it was wider and there it was narrower , until it came to a reach of natural roadway that even a bison must have hunted for before he found it .