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? the dead Indians. He scalped the one that he had shot and then proceeded towards the one I had brought down This Indian lay behind some rocks and was not yet dead. As Godey approached he raised himself and let fly an arrow it passed through Godeys shirt collar. But the Indian was exhausted by the effort and he again fell, whereupon Godey finished him. We then gathered the animals together and drove them to where we had concealed our own. We changed our horses and rode back to our camp with all the animals with the exception of those killed by the Indians for their feast. We then marched on to where the Mexican had left the two men and women. The men we discovered dead their bodies horribly mutilated, the women we supposed were carried into captivity, but such was not the case. A party travelling in our rear found their bodies very much disfigured and staked to the ground. Wee continued our march and met no further molestation till we arrived on the Virgin? River where the trail leaves it. We intended to remain there one day our animals being much fatigued. But hearing of a better situation we moved our camp about a mile further on. Here one of our party, a canadian, missed one of his mules, he started back for the old camp to get it knowing that it must have been left there but he did not inform Fremont or any of the party of his absence. In a few hours however he was missed. The ? the horse guard said he had gone to our last camp to look for his mule + I was sent with three men to seek him. We arrived at the camp safely but he could not be found though we saw where he had fallen from his horse. There was a great deal of blood spattered around the spot + we knew that he had been killed. We searched for his body and followed the trail of his animal to when it crossed the river. We then returned