When I reached the camp I found the Indians in a frenzy of excitement. They threatened to kill me unless I agreed to lead them against the emigrants, and help them kill them. They also said they had been told that they could kill the emigrants without danger to themselves, but they had lost some of their beaves, and others were wounded, and unless they could kill all the “Mericats,” as they called them, they would declare war against the Mormons and kill every one in the settlements. I did as well as I could under the circumstances. I was the only white man there, with a wild and excited band of several hundred Indians . . . We knew that the original plan was for the Indians to do all the work, and the whites to do nothing, only to stay back and plan for them, and encourage them to do the work. Now we have the Indians and could not do the work, and we were in a sad fix. I did not then know that a messenger had been sent to Brigham Young for instructions. Haight had not mentioned it to me.