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Joe appeared with horse, a regular Indian mustang strong & hardy as a bear, blankets and kettles, provisions, &c were piled on his back and Joe perched on the top —. Strapping my pack on my shoulders and taking up my rifle we sallied out —.name leading myself and the other Indians following in Indian file, and Joe bringing up the rear. It was a cold clear morning. The grey of dawn just ... over the Eastern trees and lighting us over the creek or small river on the banks of which lay the encampment — The village was still as death, not a stir among the gloomy bark wigwams, from the tops of which however the white smoke was