and he came forth. I told him we were scouts for Capt. Mills, and were out for the purpose of protecting emigrants. The
captain, as
well as the
people in the
train, were
very much
pleased to
know that
they were
going to have
protection
after that
through the
hostile country. They
had been
troubled more or less by Indians all the way through
Utah, having a great deal of stock, both horses and cattle, stolen by the Indians, as they supposed, but among
men who were better informed it was the supposition that they were stolen by white men, for in those days there was a set of white men in Utah much worse than Indians.
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I rode to a high hill-top.
On learning that I had been in California they had many questions to ask about the gold fields of that noted country. They were expecting to find gold by the bushel when once there.
This was a large train, there being one hundred and twenty wagons all told. The next morning I sent out
