All being understood I started on the trail of the white women.  I hadn’t followed the trail over a half a mile, when I saw one of the men running towards me at full speed; when he reached me he said, “We have found a dead man, and he is stuck full of arrows.”

I mounted my horse and accompanied him to where the body lay.  I recognized it at once; it was the son of the old man who had left us three days before.  His clothes were gone except his shirt and pants, and his body was almost filled with arrows.  I said, “This is one of the party, and the other is a prisoner, or we shall find his body not far from here.  Let us scatter out and search this grove of timber thoroughly; perhaps we may find the other body; and be careful to watch out for the Indians, for they are liable to run upon us any time.”

We had not gone more than two hundred yards before we found the old man’s body; it was laying behind a log with every indication of a hand-to-hand fight.  One arrow was stuck in his body near the heart, and there were several tomahawk’s wounds on the head and shoulders, which showed that he died game.

It was getting late in the afternoon so I proposed to the men that we take the bodies back to where we had found their camp, as we had no way of burying the bodies in a decent manner, we had to wait until the train came up to us.  We laid the bodies side by side under a tree and then we went into camp for the night as there was good grass for the horses.  We staked them out close to camp.  We had seen no Indians all day, so we did not think it necessary to put out guards around the camp that night, and we all laid down and went to sleep.

The next morning we were up and had an early breakfast; that done, I said, “Now, men I want two of you to go back and meet Bridger and tell him what we have found and pilot him here to this camp, and he will attend to the burying of these bodies; I would rather you should choose among your selves who shall go back.”

One man by the name of Boyd and another whose name was Taluck said they would go.  These men were both from Missouri; I then told them to tell Bridger that I was a going to start on the trail of the white women at once, and for him to camp here and that he would hear from me tonight, whether I found them or not.

The rest of the men and I started on the trail; three went on one side and three on the other, and I took the trail; I cautioned the men to keep a sharp look out for the Indians all the time, and if they saw any Indians to signal to me at once.  I had followed the trail some five or six miles when it led me to a little stream of water in a small grove of timber.  Here I found where the Indians had camped; the fire was still burning which convinced me that the Indians had camped there the night before.  I also saw where the two women had been tied to a tree.  I followed them a short distance and saw that the band we were following had met a larger band, and they