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to aid him to retake his horses, Fremont thereupon told the members of our party that if any of them wished to volunteer for such a purpose that they might do so and that he would furnish animals for them to ride. Godey and myself offered our services with the expectation that some of our other men would join us. They did not do so however and so with the Mexican we two took the trail of the stolen horses. after riding for about twenty miles the Mexican's horse gave out and we were forced to send him back. We then continued on our way alone we travelled during the night which was very dark, and often had to dismount to hunt for the trail. From certain signs on it we judged that the Indians had passed by after sun set as we were much unclear & [[unclear 2 words} we unsaddled our horses, wrapped ourselves in the soft? saddle Blankets and laid down to sleep we could not make any fire for fear of it being seen so we passed a miserably cold night - in the morning we arose very early went down in a deep ravine &made a small fire to warm ourselves. As soon as it was light enough we again took the trail. Just as the sun was rising we saw the Indians two miles ahead of us. They were encamped & having a feats having killed five of the captured animals, we were compelled to leave out horses as they could not travel over the rocks that we found directly ahead of us, but we continued on the trail on foot and finally managed to crawl in among the horses. A young colt got frightened, & that frightened the rest, the Indians noticed the commotion at last and sprang for their arms?, we considered it time to charge on them they were about thirty in number but we decided to attack them. I fired and killed an Indian, Godey ? who fired at the same instant missed his aim. I managed though to reload my gun promptly and to fire this time killing another Indian only three shots were fired and two Indians were killed they then became frightened and the remainder ran away. I took our two rifles and ascended a little to keep guard while Godey scaled