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on our Fall hunt. the party of which I was a member consisted of fifty men we set out for the country of the Blackfeet Indians at the head waters of the Missouri our hunting was very poor as the Indians were very troublesome and fires of our ????? ????? . A trapper could hardly go a mile without being fired upon. As we found we could do but little in this country we started for winter quarters, In November we got to the big Snake river where we again encamped. We remained her till February 1833. Nothing of moment having transpired. Till february when the Blackfeet came and stole eighteen of our horses twelve of us followed them for about fifty miles before we caught them. They had travelled as far as they could but were delayed by the snow. In endeavoring to get the horses, we fired some shots past them, but could not approach near enough to do any great damage, Besides they had snow shoes while we had none; so they were able to travel without difficulty whereas we would sink in the snow up to our waists. The horses were on the side of a hill where there was but little snow, and our only object now was to get the? a parley with the Indians