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and rider the other young man succeeded in evading 

 them, although himself wounded. Upon his return to 

 camp with the sad news, everything possible was done 

 to learn the fate of his comrade, that our situation 

 would permit. But no trace of hmi was found. Both 

 horse and rider were undoubtedly taken by the sav- 

 ages. The one that returned reported the last he saw, 

 of the other, several arrows were sticking in his back. 

 \vhen all hope of finding him was given up, we moved 

 several miles and found an excellent camping place on 

 the opposite side of the mountain by a stream of clear 

 water, and plenty of grass. We gave it the name of 

 "Grass creek." 



As we had traveled sixty or seventy miles out of our 

 direct course, we determined the following morning to 

 go for a time in the opposite dn^ection along the base of 

 the mountains, where we would be likely to find plenty 

 of feed and water. Accordingly we took up our line of 

 march, and before the day was passed, as we were 

 slowly jogging along through a belt of undergrowth 

 bordering upon a small stream (for want of "grub" 

 and our late misfortune we were neither very strong 

 or cheerful), we heard the distant sound of human 

 voices. As we advanced it became more distinct, 

 and very soon we realized that we were near the main 

 traveled emigrant road, and the voices were the old 

 familiar sounds of drivers of overland ox-teams. We 

 were soon cheered by the welcome sight of covered 

 wagons drawn by horses, mi;les and oxen, passing^ 

 along the dusty way. We followed in the same direc- 

 tion, but as the shadows were falling we made camp 

 and interviewed some emigrants with reference to our 

 locality. To our great disappointment we learned that 



