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it is known to be very ususual for these hostile Indians to 

 spare the lives of white men, when in their power, the acquisi- 

 tion of property being generally with them only a secondary 

 consideration. 



Captain T. had two men severely, but not mortally, wounded. 

 The Indians had seven killed, and a considerable number 

 wounded. 



20th. — Several days since a poor man came here in a most 

 deplorable condition, having been gashed, stabbed and bruised in 

 a manner truly frightful. He had been travelling on foot con- 

 stantly for fifteen days, exposed to the broiling sun, with nothing 

 to eat during the whole of this time, except the very few roots 

 which he had been able to find. He was immediately put in the 

 hospital here, and furnished with every thing necessary for his 

 comfort, as well as surgical attendance. He states that he left 

 Monterey, in California, in the spring, in companj'' with seven 

 men, for the purpose of coming to the Wallammet to join Mr. 

 Young, an American, who is now settled in that country. They 

 met with no accident until they arrived at a village of Potdmeos 

 Indians,* about ten days journey south of this. Not knowing 

 the character of these Indians, they were not on their guard, 

 allowing them to enter their camp, and finally to obtain posses- 

 sion of their weapons. The Indians then fell upon the defence- 

 less little band with their tomahawks and knives, (having no fire 

 arms themselves, and not knowing the use of those they had 

 taken,) and, ere the white men had recovered from the panic 

 which the sudden and unexpected attack occasioned, killed four 

 of them. The remaining four fought with their knives as long 

 as they were able, but were finally overpowered, and this poor 

 fellow left upon the ground, covered with wounds, and in a state 



* Called by the inhabitants of this country, the" rascally Indians,''' fcom their 

 uuilbrnily evil disposition, and hostility to white people. 



