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8 determined to fight (there is always a brotherly affection existing among trappers and the side of danger is always their choice) it was not long before all agreed to join us in our perilous enterprise - We started the horses that were retaken to the place where we had hid our other animals with three of our men acting as an escort. We then marched direct for the fort from which we had taken the horses when within a few paces of it a dog discovered us and began to bark. The Indians were alarmed and commenced getting up, whereupon we opened a deadly fire each unclear firing of ours its victim, we killed nearly every Indian in the fort, the few that remained were wounded and made their escape to the other fort. The Indians of which commenced firing on us but without any effect we kept concealed behind trees and only fired our guns when we were sure of our object. As it was now next day, the Indians could see our force and it being so weak they concluded to charge on us. We received them calmly and when very they got close fired on them killing five and the balance returned to their fort. After some deliberation among themselves they finally made another attempt which met with greater success to them as we had to retreat but as there was much timber in the vicinity we had but little difficulty in making our camp and then being reinforced by the three men with the horses we awaited the approach of the enemy. They did not attack us again so we started for our main camp and arrived there in the evening -- During our pursuit of the lost animals we suffered considerably but in the success of having recovered our horses and in sending many a redskin to his long home our sufferings were soon forgotten. We remained in our camp without any further molestation until