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Forty three Indian warriors were struck by the bullets.Many of their warriors had fallen office of new direction in death.He had heard of savage men, numbering tens of thousands in their tribes, almost as wild, as devoid of human traits as were the buffaloes whom they pursued with whoop and halloo over the plains.The forest resounded with their shrill office of new direction war whoop.While our trappers were thus encamped, elated with their victory over the Indians, and still more exultant over their daily success in trapping and hunting, one day an express rode into the camp, and informed them that the rendezvous was to be held, that year, upon the Mud river, a small stream flowing circuitously from the south into Green river.Six Indians near by rushed, with exultant yells and gleaming tomahawks, office of new direction for his scalp.Small as were the numbers engaged, limited as was the field of action, there was perhaps never a battle in which more personal courage was displayed, or in which more skill and endurance was called into requisition.The loss was very office of new direction severe to the trappers.All their outfit was in the condition of a ship which has just weathered a storm with loss of anchor, sails, spars, and leaking badly.Neither could leave his covert without certain death, and one or the other office of new direction must inevitably fall.There is sufficient nutrition in this barely to keep the animals alive for a time, but they can by no means thrive under it.