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ll very severely wounded, and was carried from the field by his comrades, one other was wounded, and when they retreatcd, horses. One Cf our men (Williams,) in ven!uring too far, was charged upon by three savages with lances, at ono of whom he fired his pistol and was immediately transfixed by lhe long lance of another. This wound did not prevent his lodging two other ihrusis from the other two In> dians, by which time we had come to his rescue. With this exception no other ono was seriously injured, though as be> fore. bullets passed through the clothes of two or three.

 The next demonstration made by the Camanches was upon two bands of oxen belonging to the depot-one o! these bands we rescued, and the other was captured. Driving them to the bluffs, they killed them, and cutting of their tails as tro- phies. retired 10 dispose of their plunder. The skirmish lasted about twenty min. utes, and the Indians obtained as the fruits of the attack B animals, making in ell S9. At night. Mir. Mcknight came up from Santa Fe, but had no spare aDi- mals. so that we were left with the cheer ing prospect of 400 miles walk across the plains, with inc pleasure of carrying such provision as we had upon our backs luckily for me, on the morning of the lst of May, the celebrated Kit Carson reached our camp on his way to ihe United States from California, with MT. Talbot. who was on his return also from Col. Fremont. They kindly offered me a horse to ride, and joined their parry On the 2d, we again set out in company Wilh Mir. McKnight's party, 24 in ali, de. termined to fight a way through z nsees.