A French survivor staggers into Fort Kiowa, and Bridger recognizes his spiral engraved canteen as Glass's, Henry organizes a search party. He survives by eviscerating the horse to shelter in its carcass. The next morning, Glass is ambushed by the Arikara and driven over a cliff on his horse. He infiltrates their camp and frees raped Powaqa, kills several hunters and recovers Hikuc's horse. After a hallucinogenic experience in it, Glass emerges as his wounds are healing but Hikuc has been hanged by French hunters. As a storm approaches, Hikuc constructs a makeshift sweat lodge for a feverish Glass to shelter in. He performs crude cauterization of his wounds, eludes the pursuing Arikara by jumping into rapids and teams up with Pawnee refugee Hikuc, sharing bison meat. Glass begins his arduous journey through the wilderness. When they meet Henry at the fort, Fitzgerald tells Henry that Glass died and Hawk vanished. Bridger ultimately follows Fitzgerald after the latter leaves Glass half-buried alive in a makeshift grave, leaving his canteen. Fitzgerald convinces unsuspecting Bridger that the Arikara are approaching, so they must abandon Glass. After the others leave, Fitzgerald attempts to smother Glass but is discovered by Hawk, whom he soon after fatally steps while Bridger is gathering water, stabs Hawk to death. Henry offers money for two men to stay with Glass and bury him after he dies: the only volunteers are Hawk and the young Jim Bridger, yet Fitzgerald agrees to stay for money, to recoup his losses from the abandoned pelts. Trapper John Fitzgerald fears another Arikara attack, argues they must mercy-kill Glass and keep moving. While scouting game, Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear and left presumably dying. Guided by Glass, who is questioned by some trappers, they next reach on foot Fort Kiowa, as traveling downriver would make them vulnerable. The surviving trappers escape onto a boat. While he and his half-Pawnee son, Hawk hunt, the company's camp is attacked and decimated by an Arikara war party which seeks its Chief's abducted daughter, Powaqa. 1823, half-blood Hugh Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry's company trappers party through the present-day Dakotas.
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