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15 there was a man that wished to do good he was that man.He never feared danger when duty required his presence among the savages and if good works on this earth are rewarded hereafter I am confident that his share of glory and happiness in this next world will be great. In twenty days the rendezvous broke up and I and seven men went to Brown's hole? a trading post. I then found Thompson & Sinclair's party on a trading expedition to the Navajo Indians. we secured thirty mules from them and returned to Brown's hole?. Thompson then took the mules to the south fork of the Platte, disposed of them to Sublete? and basques & came back with goods that would be suitable for trading with the Indians. I was soon employed as the hunter for the fort and continued as such during the winter. My duties consisted in keeping twenty men in provisions. In the Spring I found Bridger, in the party there were three Canadians, Dick Owens and myself and we five set out for the black hills on a hunting expedition We trapped the streams in the vicinity of the hills. Then we separated Owens and myself taking one course and the Canadians another. We trapped for three months made a very good hunt and then started to find the main camp which was located on a tributary of the Green river. We staid here till the month of July and then went into rendezvous on the unclear a branch of the Wind river. About August the 20th we started for the Yellow Stone river, trapped all the streams in its vicinity and went into winter quarters on it. About the1st of January a few men were out hunting not far from our camp and discovered a party of Blackfeet as soon as the information was brought to us of the unclear of our old enemies, a party of forty men started out to