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Show A GENTILE'S VERSION. 121 forthwith by one of his Indians, and JVTr. Lee and his eldest boy started to Kanab to bring assistance. As soon as he was gone we placed the house in the best state of defense we could, and awaited the issue. " On the third day a Piute Indian, sent by the Navajoes, arrived. After a long talk, Mrs. Lee acting as interpreter, we gathered that the young men of the tribe were at first deter-mined on war, but that the chiefs were opposed to it, for the present, at least ; and that they desired to await the arrival of Jacob Hamblin, who has acted as representative of Brigham Young, in all negotiations of importance with the Indians for the past twenty years, and learn what settlement of the affair he was willing to make. " This was favorable, as two of the slain Indians were sons of one of the chiefs. He wound up his remarks by inquiring if, in case the Navajoes did come here, we would purchase peace by giving up the old man, Winburn, to torture, in which case they would abstain from further hostilities. " With difficulty repressing our strong desire to shoot him on the spot, we declined the offer, and charging him with a message to the chiefs of the nation, that as soon as Hamblin arrived we would apprise them of his advent, we let him depart. " Matters remained in statuo quo until the 29th inst., when Messrs. Lee, Hamblin and Smithson, a son- in- law of the for-mer, and his wife arrived, the advance guard of a party from Kanab, now on the road. " We communicated to Mr. Hamblin the message from the Kavajoe chiefs, and, merely pausing to take some refreshments, he started at once for the nearest Moquis village, eight miles distant, to send a messenger to them to notify them of his arri-val, and request their presence, my brother and I accompanying him. " We reached there about sundown, and found, to onr extreme disappointment, that all the Indians had gone to a big dance at the Oriba villages, sixty miles distant, with the exception of one lame Piute. " We remained there that night, and the next morning started for the Oriba villages, taking Huck- a- bur, the lame Indian, who is a good interpreter, along with us. " We had not rode over fifteen miles, when we met the Piute who had acted as the Navajoe envoy on the former occasion. He said he was going to see if Hamblin had arrived, and expressed great delight at seeing him, saying that the Indians |