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for a few minuts. so he sit down. it was not long untill he was fast asleep. so the twenty Indians wiggled towards their prey like snakes. now with their heads up and again with their faces close to the ground. the white Boys were dreaming of their sweet hearts or their homes. all at once their dreams was cut short when they woke they heard the Indian war hoop. which was so well knawn by all the old fronteermen. the most of the white Boys went into the lake, only one got a seriois? wound five or six others got hit by arrows. Capat Crosby emtyed his six shooter he routed the Indians. the attacting Indians were pit rivers they followed Crosby and his compay and attacted them in the Modoc country. Cap Crosby and his men left their camp early that morning they had not gone far till they saw afew Modoc men and squaws. the Indians were prepareng their morning meal Crosby ordered his men to fire on the Indians which they did only three Indians made their escape out of fourteen that was the first Modoc blood spilt by white man the ones that made their escape went from Villiagge to Villiagge. and spread the news, that some of their number had been killd by white men, not in war so the Indians vacated their camps some took to the