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27 having but poor faith in the good intentions of the Klamath Indians & fearing for the safety of Lieutenant Gillespie and his party, concluded to go and meet him. He took ten picked men, travelled about 60 miles and found Gillespie encamped for the night. Fremont sat up till 12 or 1 oclock, reading the letters which he had received from the states while Owens and myself were rolled in our saddle blankets and were lieing near the fire, the night being cold, shortly after Fremont had laid down I heard a noise like the stroke of an axe. I jumped up, saw that Indians were in our camp and gave the alarm, the Indians had then tomahawked two men, Lajeunesse & a Delaware Indian and were proceeding to the fire where four Delaware Indians were lying asleep. But they heard the alarm in time One of them named Crane got up, seized a gun which unfortunately was not his own and which was not loaded, he was not aware of this however and kept trying to fire it. He stood erect and received five arrows in his breast. He fell forward, four of his wounds being mortal ones. The evening before I had fired off my gun for the purpose of cleaning it. I had accidentally broken the tube and so had nothing but my pistol. I rushed at the hostile Indian warrior who had killed Crane and fired this at him but only succeeded in cutting? the string that held his tomahawk. Then I had to retire, having no other weapon. Maxwell fired on him also and hit him in the leg, as he was turning.Step? fired too and struck him in the back, the ball passing near the heart; he fell and the balance of his party turned and ran. He was the bravest Indian I ever saw, if his men had been as brave as he was we surely would have all been killed. We lost three men and had one slightly wounded. If we had not gone to meet Lieutenant Gillespie, he and his party would have been murdered, the Indians evidently were on his trail for that purpose. We apprehended no danger that night and the men being much