“You will have to accompany me to my house,” I said

broke out, and I was detached from duty with the exploring party and

required by Major Gabriel J. Rains, then commanding the district, to

join an expedition against the Yakimas. They had some time before

killed their agent, and in consequence a force under Major Granville

O. Haller had been sent out from the Dalles of the Columbia to

chastise them; but the expedition had not been successful; in fact,

it had been driven back, losing a number of men and two mountain

The object of the second expedition was to retrieve this disaster.