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118 Steamboat Frank curly headed doctor, Shaknastry Jim Hooker Jim wacum. Miller Charley, Mose Kisk, Boncho: and others recent west. We will leave jack and Schonchin for a while and follow Black Jims part. The travled west till late in the evening. they could go fast there was only a few poregs. the warm spring scouts and soldiers had captured nearly all the ponys the Modocs ourid? every squaw had to pack a big load on their back. some had young children they could not walk. they had to be carried on some ones back, children from seven years old up had to walk. the best they can. the real old women and old men was more bother to the middle aged people then the children some of them was partly blind they could not see to travel. they spririt their first night after they fell out with Capt. Jack near willow creek on the south side of Vanbrimer Mountain. Next morning Black Jim told the people that they would not moir but would lay over to rest the women and children. he was acting as leader he put his men on guard. The two guards rushed in to camp about mid afternoon reposted. that the soldiers on horse back was right on them. the men hurried their women children and old folks south in a juniper thicket. the warriors lay in wait for the enemy, the soldiers worked