Uttering a loud cry, he leaped—away from the pool of

so our guide, an Indian named "Cut-mouth John," seized upon it, and

giving hot chase, soon, overtook the poor creature, whom he speedily

killed without much danger to himself, for the fugitive was armed

with only an old Hudson's Bay flint-lock horse-pistol which could not

"Cut-mouth John's" engagement began and ended all the fighting that

took place on this occasion, and much disappointment and discontent

followed, Nesmith's mounted force and my dragoons being particularly

disgusted because they had not been "given a chance." During the