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ject, when a movement among the horses discovered them to the Indians; 
giving the war shout, they instantiy charged into the camp, regardless of the 
-number which the Pur lodges would imply. The Indians received them 
Ssuee flight of arrows shot from their long bows, one of which 
ci e bake s shirt ner Phone mis oe the neck; our men fired their 
odes eady aim ushed in, Two Indians were 
the pebeind; atally plorcod ith bullets: ; " the rest fled, except a lad that was 
captured. The scalps of the falier were instantly stripped off; but in the 
process, one of them, who had two balls through his body, sprung to his 
feet, the blood streaming from his skinned head, and uttering a hideous 
owl. An old squaw, possibly his mother, stopped and looked back from 
the mountain side she was climbing, threatening and lamenting. The 
. frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men; but they did what 
humanity required, and quickly terminated the agonies ‘of the gory savage. 
They were now masters of the camp, which was a pretty little recess in the: 
"mountain, with a fine spring, and apparently safe from all invasion. Great 
‘preparations had been made to feast a large party, for it was a very proper 
place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration of such oggiesas robbe 
the desert would delight in. Several of the best horses had been riled, 
skinned, and cut up; for the Indians living in mountains, and only coming 
into the plains to rob and murder, make no other use of horses than to eat 
them. Large earthen vessels were on the fire, boiling and stewing the 
horse beef; and a mete containing fifty or sixty oe of moccasins, 
indicated the p sen le party. They released 
the boy, who had piven strong evidence of the stoicism, 03 ‘something else, 
_ of the savage character, in commencing his breakfast upon a horse’s head. 
* “as soon as he found he was not to be killed, but only tied as a prisoner. 
Their object accomplished, our mien gathered up all the surviving horses, 
fifteen in number, returned upon their trail, and rejoined us at our camp in 
_ the afternoon of the sameday. They had rode about one hundred miles in 
pots al and return, — all in thirty hours. The time, place, object, 
“and umbers, tion of Carson and Godey ma may be con- 
sidbeail sation thie woh esv unit Pacer disinterested which the annals of western 
adventure, so full of daring deeds, can present. Two men, in a savage des- 
eos pursue day and night an unknown body of Indians into the defiles of 
an unknown mountain—attack them on sight, without counting nambers— 
and defeat them in an instant—and for what? To punish the robbers of the 
desert, and to avenge the wrongs of Mexicans whom they did not know. 
repeat: it was Carson and Godey who did this—the former an American, 
born 'i in the Boonslick county of Missouri; the lattera Frenchman, born in 
St. Louis—and both trained to western enterprise from early life. 
ee a, the information of Fuentes, we had now to make a long ooh of 
or fifty aad across a plain which lay between us and the next possi- 
camp; e resumed our journey late in the afternoon, with the in- 
“tention of sagaitie through the night,and avoiding the excessive heat of — 
ana hehe a high plaim, passing, at the opposite side, through a cel ef 
the bed of a creek running nor. wardly into a smal| lake aioe ind 
of them being dry. We hada ruses moonshiny night; and, : 
-reetly towards the north star, we journeyed now across am opel plain be 
tween mountain ri ges; that on the left being broken, roeky, and bald, ac- 
‘eording to the-information of Carson and Godey, who- sia Entered here in 
y, Which was oppressive to our animals. For several hours ‘we trav- $ ‘ 
