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saw that he was helpless and made?for him for the purpose of taking his scalp I thereupon dismounted fired and killed one of them and the rest retired. By this time Cotton succeeded in getting released from the pressure on him and his horse had struggled to his feet so he remounted it and made the camp. While this was going on I found my own horse had become frightened and had run away from me? But a friend named White? was not far away so I called to him and as soon as he saw the predicament I was in he came to my rescue. I mounted his horse behind him and we in this manner soon reached safety. The Indians next took up their position in a pile of rocks about one hundred and fifty yards from us. They fired on us & we returned their fire but finding that no execution was being done we concluded to charge them. This was the prettiest? fight I ever saw and the Indians held their ground for some time. I would often see a white man on one side of a rock and the Indian on the other. They were scarcely ten feet apart and each dodging and trying to get the first shot. We finally bested? the Indians and took some scalps. Though several of our men were slightly wounded in the struggles this ended our difficulties with the Blackfeet during that particular hunt. We continued up the North fork to the head of the Green river where a messenger overtook us saying that the rendezvous would be held on the Wind river. We then set out for the rendezvous and arrived at it in eight days. Our equipment meanwhile had arrived safely and was awaiting us. Also some missionaries also put in their appearance on their way to the Columbia river- accompanied by an English nobleman Sir William Stuart a man who will be forever remembered by the mountaineers that had the honor of his acquaintance both for his liberality to them and for his many other good qualities. Among the missionaries was old father De Smith? who is now at the Catholic University of St Louis. I can say truthfully of him that if ever