have only to ring up Scotland Yard from Dr. Petrie’s

implicit faith in a Pit River Indian at that period of the settlement

of our country, and especially in that wild locality, so after a

"council of war" with the corporal and man, I concluded to advance to

a point about two hundred yards distant from the party, when, relying

on the speed of our horses rather than on the peaceable intentions of

the savages, I hoped to succeed in cutting around them and take the

trail beyond. Being on foot they could not readily catch us, and

inasmuch as their arrows were good for a range of only about sixty