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Show heard of nnd supposed it would not be lon before we would be doomed to die, as they could see our situation and had proposed to take advantage of it It was, indeed, in-deed, a pleasure to us to seo daylight day-light the next morning.' We hastened hast-ened on our journey as soon as daylight did arrive, hoping to be free from them, but lo, our trouble was not at an end, for we had not gone over a mile or two, when a number of tho natives came just as fast as they could ride, with their long hair floating in the air bo-hind bo-hind them, pnd shouting like demons, de-mons, an d they rode up beside our carts and threw their lassoes to us and showed us that they wanted us to tie them to our carts, and where there were young women wo-men at the carts they seemed determined de-termined to tie their ropes to the carts; and thus they followed us and tormented us for hours, and thus our first Indian experience was a terror to us in very deed; and we in our very souls desired that that band of Indians would be the last we would be troubled with. For awhile they had their own fun. To be continued. Written forTn Uniom. HANDCART EXPERIENCE Continued. It was tho Indians, eome of whom had made their way to our camp without our hearing a sound of any kind, and ye: we had been listening and watching very carefully. care-fully. Two of them had on buck-skin buck-skin Buits that were covered with bells and it was curious how they enme in without being noticed. They sang, jumped, and mode night hideous indeed to us, and in their mischief they knocked down one of our tents while it was full of people, which made them 8crer.m and yell, and it was a time with us long to be remembered, for we thought they were having one of their war dancea which we had |