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We pushed on to where they had killed 

 Brown, but, as it was too dark to find anything 

 but the wagon, we concluded to go to camp 

 and return when the moon rose, and put the 

 body away. When we were within about 

 two hundred yards of camp, I told Allred to 

 wait, while I went ahead and made a kind 

 of reconnoissance. As I was slipping along 

 I spied the bulk of an object standing on a 

 little rise. I thought it was a person, and, as 

 I was standing very still and watching it very 

 closely, I heard a very low voice saying: ''Is 

 that you, Charlie ? " I then knew that it 

 was McFerrin, and answered that it was me. 

 He then came to me and said: "There are 

 Indians here; they stole everything you had 

 that they wanted. They took your horses, 

 and shot at me, and I ran and hid in the 

 bluffs where they could not find me." He 

 said he was nearly frozen, and told me that 

 he had seen them kill a man just out on the 

 road. The moon soon came up, and we went 

 down to the road and found the poor fellow. 

 He was frozen stiff, and I put him on my 



