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all sick the supervisor road by them
saw ther destitution and suffering
and paid no heed to them the captain
in command at this post hearing
from every one that come by them of ther
great suffering entirely destitue cituation
nothing to eat no medical treatment
and positively the hogs eating them
up either before or after they was dead
after I had been in the valley five days
the capt came to me and stated that it
become his duty to put some one in
charge of those Indians that he had no
officer that he could spare to go off to bring
them in and wished me to engage in it I conceded
he appointed me I went and brought aportion
of them in Mr Steel has arived in the
mean time and took the business out of
my hands and put another man at it
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