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safe to trust, and I believe that my suspicions 

 in this direction have several times saved my 

 life. I have seen but very few Indians that 

 were not dangerous and they were dead. 



Immediately after this I went across to 

 Silver Lake to join an old hunter who was 

 camped there, as I did not like to be alone 

 while the Indians were so troublesome. Be- 

 sides, he was, as I have said, an old hunter, 

 and in a scrimmage with red skins his equal 

 was hard to find. Many an Indian had dropped 

 at the crack of his rifle and he was well known 

 among them, and was as universally feared as 

 he was known. With him, and ten minutes 

 notice, we could have made it warm for any 

 number of reds likely to attack us, but when 

 I came to his camp, I found that he had gone 

 in to the station and I was compelled to stay by 

 myself at last, with the Indians passing nearly 

 every day. However, I continued hunting 

 for sometime without molestation from them, 

 but succeeded in getting into some scrapes 

 not much more agreeable than an Indian 

 fight. 



