When I returned to the city I found my school stopped. I started it again and finished my quarter. Then I took another trip to the same Indians in company with Old Elic Williams and his son Thomas.

Thomas had been among the Indians for four years. [Elijah Barney] Ward had been with them seventeen years. My nephew Allen Huntington accompanied us. Allen was about 16 years old and could talk Eutah and Snake or Shoshonee, and Spanish all very well.

We were gone just a week this time and two weeks the first time. The second night we stayed on Dry Creek where there was no water at that time of the year and had to melt snow to drink. Late in the evening we heard some of the natives calling to us "how de doo," a name they sometimes gave the whites, because of the common salutation. We answered them. They were far down the creek towards Eutah Lake. They cried out again and wanted to know if Wandship (a leader in the Salt Lake Valley with whom they had been at war lately) was there. We said no. They then kept hallooing in friendly terms until they came to us, four brothers, Blueshirt, Romannose and two younger brothers. They have a kind of play which they call "Nahwich," by which they gamble. It is attended with a song, and is quite interesting. They wanted we should play with them. Thomas and Allen were used to the game and started with them, while the old man and I looked and kept ourselves as a guard. The whites soon won the Indians bows and arrows. We gave them back their implements and sent them away, on friendly terms.

The next day two of them followed on foot all day to get a smoke at night, when night came, as we were encamped around a good fire on the banks of the Provo River, a number of Indians were around our fire and a village near by. These two who followed us were yet in the village, and the curiosity of those around our fire was attracted by the sight of my "six shooter," or revolving pistol. I told them it was "bad medicine" and they must not touch it, and I motioned what I could do with it. They seemed to laugh at the idea. I held it out over their heads and suddenly let off tow of the barrels. They all dropped onto their knees, seats, or bent down. I gave a fierce look at them and discharged the remaining four barrels, and by the time I was done they were all laying on the ground shaking with fear.

I then laughed at them and told them I would not hurt them, that I would only kill those that stole cattle out of the other valley [Salt Lake Valley]. The next morning they came to us from the village and told us that those two young men who came with us were scared when them guns were fired the night before, and ran off immediately and had not been seen since. They had probably gone home in the night. The chief or captain of the village then told us that there was that family of boys great thieves, and for that he had driven them away from his hand because they would not hear him and stop stealing the Mormons cattle, and that since he drove them away they had told one of his men that they had eat nothing but "Koot-sem-bongos" or cattle all winter and did not hunt any. He said he did not know where they lived, but he wanted the big white captain to send up some men and kill those mean men, mean Ewtes he called them, and said "if the big captain does not kill them I will, but it will look better for you to kill your own enemies. If they are not killed now, they will soon get more men to stealing cattle and then you will come up and kill me, my men, women and children." "Tell the big ' Yabaloo Captain (white captain) to come up and kill them mean Ewtes." These particulars he told us through "Parbeleau" the half Ewte and Spaniard.

This we reported to the Presidency when we returned home and on the second day of March a company of 30 men were raised and fitted out at the public expense. The third and fourth of March we spent in hunting for them, but could not find them. On the afternoon of the fourth we came to the Provo, where The "Little Chief" and "stickin-the head" were camped, leaders of two bands, one village on the north and the other on the south side of the river. Little Chief was a noted friend to all white men. He said one of his men had found where the mean Ewtes were, and that we must go under cover of night to get to them, for we would be in sight of them all they way after we should leave the banks and timber of the Provo, as they were up in the side of the mountain. He sent three of his men with us. Barney Ward and Dimick were alon[g] as interpreters. The Chief and all the Indians were wonderfully frightened to see our martial array, and order on horseback.

Those mean Ewtes were 10 miles back towards the other valley. About eleven l'clock we took up our line of march. The moon was full which gave us a good view of our road and course. In this country the moon is seldom abscured by clouds. We were a novel and grand spectacle to ourselves, and a cause of great astonishmnet and admiration to our native guides, as we moved along softly and slowly in the moonlight.

We took to the side of the mountain so high up that there was a perceptible difference in the atmosphere, being mich colder than down in the vale. We wandered along to within two or three miles of them, as near as the make of the country and our knowledge of their situation would admit.

We did not like to trust too much to our guides. There we halted in a cove in the mountain where were a plenty of large sage brush and juniper trees. There four or five men were detached to reconortre [reconnoiter] the country and find the Indians which is easily done by night as they never let their fires go down. We that were left to take care of the horses, (as those that went on, went on foot) made a fine fire, warmed ourselves and proceeded to lay down on the ground and took a nap. The horses we hitched to trees and sage bruch with not much to eat that night with their saddles all one, ready to start. After about three hours, Judson Stodard returned with orders from John, our leader (John Scott) to bring on the company in all silence. We were soon on the march, and in a short time came to a small fire in a deep ravine, with the remainder of our company hovering over the few coals they dared to keep, having found the camp of the mean Ewtes, which was near half a mile distant from us then. There we waited in silent suspense and anxiety for day light to make its fist [first] appearance, upon which the company was divided into five squads or parties, one on horseback, on up the creek, one down the creek, one to the north side and one to the south side of the creek, were the positions of the different little parties. The horsemen were, in case they should any get away from our circle.

They had three houses built in the usual style of those poorer indians. A number of small poles are stuck in the ground forming a circle, the tops of those poles are all brought into the centre and fastened. This is the frame, and it is covered with long grass barks, skins, or anything most handy, save a little hole at the top and a small hole at the side for a door. The fire is in the centre, and smoke goes out at the hole in the top, some of it; the the rest they manage to breathe into their lungs and get into their eyes some way, which gives them a very peculiarly disagreeable look. The situation of these houses were where the creek once ran, and near the edge of the creek as it then was. Their situation was a strong hold, a great place of defence. About one fourth mile from the abrupt and almost inaccessable mountains, on the banks of a small creek, running swiftly down a very seep small ravine or gutter which was filled with almost impenetrable small timber, brush and thorns. Their retreat could not be discerned in the day time until within five rod of it. When day broke upon us we were on the south side of the creek. I was in the division that crossed the creek, and we were the most tardy in getting our places, and in seeing this we hurried a little, which made so much noise we started the victims from their secrete retreat. It was the plan, for all to get their stations unobserved and then send in a committee to wait upon them out, and invite them to give themselves up to our law; but they saved themselves the trouble of civil law, and chose the uncivil law. They only saw us, and started to run up the creek for the mountains, where they found a wall of whites, they started for the south where they found another blockade, they tried to west and found the same and there we were by this time on the north in a line of circling in upon them, retreat they could not. As yet not a gun had been fired. Our interpreters talked to them and told them our errand, and asked them to give themselves up. They refused. Our guide talked to them and reasoned with them, but all to no purpose, fight they would unless we wend away, then they said they would come out. The guide told them they must come out then or die. Then the arrows began to fly; but from where we could not see; yet could hear the twang of the bow-string. Our orders were, every man take care of himself and as many of the enemy as we could. I.E. to fight them their own way. Occasionally one would put his head up to see the enemy, and the enemy always had their guns up to take advantage of such incidents, but we always shot in such haste, that nearly all our shots, being at such small objects, missed, and hence we were a long time fireing, sculking in the brush--looking peaking and trying to get a shot.

We knew nothing how many there was, but from their crying, howling, mourning and loud talk supposed there was 15 or 20. The women and children were called to come out, that we wanted not to hurt them. They would not come. The first one shot was their leader. Then such a howling and crying, I think white men never heard before. Dimick told him to go and bring it out to him. He then told us all to go away. D-- cocked his gun and told him to move and bring that gun or he wouod shoot him. His sister told him to go, and he went and brought it. With this they had fired at us as often as they could get it off. At first we were at such a distance that we could see their arrows and dodge them.

Now their gun was gone, and their arrows nearly exhausted and our men nearly all on one side of the creek they began to run, and "Blew Shirt" nearly succeeded in getting away, but finally fell from a shot which unjointed his neck. He fell with 18 ball holes, mostly through his body, and when he fell was running at the speed of a horse. I believe none got away. This was on the morning of the 5th of March 1849.

When the firing had ceased it was perhaps 8 O'clock, the sun was high up and Little Chief had come from his home on horseback, since he first heard our guns. The morning was clear and calm as God ever made, and the vollies of our guns rolled down the mountain and lighted upon Little Chiefs ears, and seemed to him, with all the horrors of his own death nell. He thought "Oh" his countrymen those once of his own band are now being hewn down by the magic white men, his heart was filled with pity, although but a few hours previous he had signed their death warrant by sending his men to guide us to them, without which we could never have got them. His pity overcame him, he mounted his best horse and dashedp [up] the mountainsides for ten miles with almost one breath. His horse, a noble animal with large extended nostrils, was ass wet as the poor squaws who had laid in the creek. Little Chief was wet with tears and his horse wet with sweat.

The old man howled, cried, moaned hollowed, screamed and smote his breast in the greatest agony of mind when he came to us. He blamed himself and cursed the whites, and said it would not be good medicine for two or three to come up there alone as they had done before. But it was not long before a settlement and fort was made close to his village in Ewtah Valley, and I went up there and passed that battle ground alone. The women and children went to the Sale Lake City, or near it, to live with some of their relatives.

After they came out of their retreat in the creek, they were no more afraid of us, but seemed as though we were their friends, and indeed such we were. We only wanted to stop their stealing our cattle and teach all the indians around us, a lasting lesson. There was not an individual in our company injured in the whole fracuss and the lesson was well understood by all the surrounding indians.