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afraid of death but he has spoken some good words. I think I see in him a wise man and a good leader of our people when he becomes a man. I can not take the words of my baby son. I am like Legugyakes. I shall fight for my country that god gave me. So the council was called off by the chiefs. One day an Indian was out hunting far from his village. He looked south. He shaded his eyes with hi9s hand and looked again. He said to him self I thought I could not be misstaken. It is many white-people coming. He got behind a little ridge and started on a run for his village. He reported to Legugyakes the combutwaush leader what he had seen. Legugyakes said tonight when the stars are dim will be our time. Meanwhile the train of wagons was making its way through the eastern part of the famous Lava beds where the Modoc Indians mead their last stand in the year of 1873. The jaded oxen and tired horses of the emigrants was lugging the heavy wagons with their high bows and white canvas tops. The train of wagons looked like a huge