]8 FATE OF FOX. 



on a hunt, taking with them, among other things, a lot of sham 

 jewellery, which I had brought out for the Indians, and not 

 wanting it, had given to Fox, and that about a week afterwards 

 Belknap had come back, riding one of the two small mules 

 which they had driven in their waggon, and said that they had 

 been attacked by Indians and that Fox had been killed, and 

 that he himself had escaped by cutting a mule out of harness 

 and riding off. 



As this story was highly improbable, a party started for the 

 place where Belknap said that the waggon was, to inquire into 

 the matter and get at the facts, and on arriving there they 

 found Fox lying in the bottom of the waggon, with his head on 

 his arm, as if asleep the ball which had killed him having 

 entered under the arm and passed upwards, so that he must 

 have been shot while asleep. His money was gone, but the 

 waggon was riot plundered, and all the sham jewellery was 

 left, which was the first thing Indians would have taken. 

 The party returned at once to Sibley to hang Belknap, but 

 found him gone, and he had not been heard of since. There 

 was a good deal of excitement in the settlement about Indians, 

 a woman having been killed at a house on its outskirts, and 

 two men had been shot at when herding horses about a mile 

 away, and the horses had been driven off. 



We were advised to turn back, but we had got away safely 

 the year before, and we believed we should this time, so we 

 determined to go on. On coming in sight of the mouth of the 



White Eock, F and I, who were riding ahead, saw a 



number of tents there, and of course our first idea was, 

 Indians ; but on using a glass we made them out to be white 

 men, so we rode on and were soon in the camp, and it turned 



