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all crossed the river before dark, except the guard left with the mules 24th in the morning drove the mules in the river & swam them across as they came out we caught them with lariats = we saw smoke on the mountain. there are parties of Indians around us, that are telegraphing to other parties farther off,, We? have to keep on our guard & prepared for them all the time, bathed in the river one of our party came to my fire for coals & carefully dropped some in the dry grass near, before it could be subdued it burnt up my rubber coat & towels etc. on guard from 2 to 4 night cold 26th breakfast as soon as daylight = after we were packed up = just as I was starting = heard the report of a gun a short distance off & almost immediately a call for a doctor, I rode back & found a man^ from New Orleans belonging to a another party,, lying on the ground with his left arm shattered by a charge of buck shot = the charge going in at the wrist & lodging in the elbow, tearing the muscles & bones of the fore arm to peices, I took off my neck handkercheif (put a compress over the brachial artery) & twisted it until the bleeding stopped,, I told the man his arm would have to be taken off above the injury, but as we had no tools except a tenaculum & surgeons needle (in a pocket case) I had to make tools for the occasion out of such as could be had, I borrowed a dirk knife from one of our men & sharpened it on a flat smooth stone, until it would cut a hair. also found a carpenters saw & filed & set it, used old shirt for a sponge, & as we had no adhesive plaster was obliged to use stitches & bandages to keep tips of cut together = my neck-handkercheif answered very well