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Show 194 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. When I returned to our camp, I saw a crowd around the Governor's wagon. I approached, and found that his excellency had just concluded a purchase from the Utahs of two children, about two to three years o f age. They were prisoners, and infants of the Snake Indians, with whom the Utahs were at war. When the Governor first saw these deplorable objects, they were on the open snow, digging with their little fingers for grass-nuts, or any roots to afford sustenance. They were almost living skeletons. They are usually treated in this way-that is, literally starved to death by their captors. Gov. Young intended to send them to Salt Lake City, and have them cared for and educated like his own children. I never saw a more piteous sight than those> two naked infants, in bitter cold weather, on the open snow, reduced by starvation to the verge of the grave- no, not the grave; for if they had died, they would have been thrown on the common for the wolves to devour! |
