me how absurd my request must have sounded. I will explain

would find the two men left on the roadside, and he was directed to

take them into Fort Reading. They were found without difficulty, and

carried in to the post. The sick man--Duryea--whom I had expected

never to see again, afterward became the hospital steward at Fort

Yamhill, Oregon, when I was stationed there.

The Indians that I had passed at the ford came to the bluff above the

camp, and arranging themselves in a squatting posture, looked down

upon Williamson's party with longing eyes, in expectation of a feast.