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of their saddles were emptied, still they persevered in attacking us for a day & a night, but they always had to retire to reload, & we had not, we had a great advantage over them. At last when we had killed eighty of them, & they had killed nine of us, we got towards morning upon the top of a hill where there was kind of a natural [[]] of rock, & they cd not approach us without being exposed to our fire: they then gave up the game, & drew off. These sixteen shooters cost in California forty dollars, but mine has so long been my companion day & night, & has so often saved my life, that I wd not take any money for it." After? he said this he turned it round to see if there was any speck