of Leighton’s “Athlete,” his arms rigid as iron bars

with by sending to my assistance the greater part of my own company

("K")from Fort Yamhill. The men, inspired by the urgency of our

situation, marched more than forty miles a day, accomplishing the

whole distance in so short a period, that I doubt if the record has

ever been beaten. When this reinforcement arrived, the Indians saw

the futility of further demonstrations against their agent, who they

seemed to think was responsible for the insufficiency of food, and

managed to exist with the slender rations we could spare and such