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remained in the same place, proceeded to 

 dress them, but closely watching the Indians, 

 who, shortly after I began skinning my game, 

 sat down on the ground and looked at me 

 until I got through, when I loaded them on 

 the wr.gon and drove off. 



When I got in to Sherlock station I found 

 a great excitement about the Indians, and the 

 people supposed that they had killed me as I 

 had been out so long. This was about the 

 time General Custer and his command were 

 killed by them. Uncle Sam had fed and 

 fattened the red devils until they were in good 

 lighting trim, and they went at it, and were 

 killing people every day. About fifty were 

 killed in the vicinity of where I was. They 

 surprised the people at different places, almost 

 before they were known to be axiy where near, 

 and shot them down like wild beasts. Some 

 were tortured and mutillated in the most 

 revolting manner, and scalped and left to die. 

 At one place a band of them surprised a school 

 that Avas taught by a lady teacher, and cap- 

 tured the whole school. Thev did not kill 



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