Although it would make quite a burden they intended to carry practically all of it with them.
Many mountain wolves were drawn that night by the odor of the spoils, but they lay between twin fires and had no fear of an attack.

Yet the time might come when they would be assailed by fierce wild animals, and now they were glad that Tayoga had kept Garay's rifle, and also his ammunition, a good supply of powder and bullets.

It was possible that the question of ammunition might become vital with them, but they did not yet talk of it.
On the second day thereafter, bearing their burdens of what had been the deer, they reached the stony valley Tayoga had in mind, and Robert saw at once that its formation indicated many caves.
"Now, I wonder if the bears have come," he said, putting down his pack and resting.

"The cold has been premature and perhaps they're still roaming through the forest.

I shouldn't want to put an interloper out of my own particular cave, but, if I have to do it, I will." "The bears haven't arrived yet," said Tayoga, "and we can choose.