. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. all of his bandcould attack them again. The War Chief sent twentyIndians with one hundred fresh horses to overtake theIndians that were following the Crows, for their horseshad been on the go all day and were about worn said that he had seen twenty-five of our Indians thatwere dead. How many more had been killed he did notknow. Mother told them that they might take two ofher horses and I let them have my ro£ui pony to helpthem in their chase after the fleeing Crows. By this time three or four hundred squaws andpapoose
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. all of his bandcould attack them again. The War Chief sent twentyIndians with one hundred fresh horses to overtake theIndians that were following the Crows, for their horseshad been on the go all day and were about worn said that he had seen twenty-five of our Indians thatwere dead. How many more had been killed he did notknow. Mother told them that they might take two ofher horses and I let them have my ro£ui pony to helpthem in their chase after the fleeing Crows. By this time three or four hundred squaws andpapooses were wailing and moaning till they could beheard for two miles. I asked mother when our turn wouldcome. Do hush and go to sleep, said Hanabi; but therewas not much sleep that night. When day came, I saw such a sight as I had never seenbefore. About one hundred Indians had been broughtin during the night, aU very badly wounded. Motherand I went around to see them. One poor fellow had hisnose shot off and one eye shot out. He said he didnt 94 The White Indian Boy. Indian grave among the rocks, Utah desert. feel very well. Many of them were so badly hurt thatI knew they could not live until sundown, and I thoughtabout half of them would die that day. A few old Indianswere sent over to the battle field to keep the eagles andwolves from eating the Indians that had been War Chief had been shot in the arm and in the leg,but was not very badly hurt. He had gone before I gotup that morning and had taken with him all of the war-riors that were able to go. That night a little after dark all of our Indians re-turned. Washakie said that the Crows had gone intothe thick timber from which he could not get them out,but that there were not many of them left men brought in a very large band of Crows horsesand saddles and when they were unpacked I never beforesaw such a pile of buffalo robes, blankets, bows and The Fierce Battle 95 arrows, and guns. The next morning we al
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