men, and which looked to have been taken in the last twenty-four hours; two rifles, but no amunition, and I don't think they would have known how to use them if they had had amunition. They were armed with bows and arrows, and some had knives.
I stayed and looked after the captured horses while the other boys went back after our own horses. On their return I laid down and slept awhile, but the other boys
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They killed the third one as he arose.
did not lie down at all that night, for there was not much night left by the time they got in with our horses.
The following morning, as soon as it was light enough to see, we counted the horses and found there were fifty-five of them.
After getting our breakfast we started back on the trail the Indians had come, that being the course we wished to go. We traveled hard all day, and just at
