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Show INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS 105 Indian guide, and three others, when they would find Tintic, to cut off his ears, as they were of no good. This talk took place just before the Marshal, with about seventy- five men left Palmyra for the west mountains. i ' This was a very exciting time, ' ' writes John Banks. " We camped the first night on the north end of the so- called west mountain, where we experienced an extremely cold night, without any bedding except our saddle blankets, and were not allowed to have any fire after sundown. When day dawned we learned that several of our men had frozen feet, and consequently had to return home. Among those with frozen feet was William Fair-banks of Payson, but he would not return home. Early in the morning we saddled our horses, and the order, " mount, forward march/' was gvien. Fairbanks would continue the march, nothwithstand-ing he suffered much during the expedition. We had not gone far before we struck the trail of an Indian, which track we followed on the ice across the Utah Lake, till we came to the dugout where Hunsaker's two herdsmen had been killed in the cedars. The blood was lickered in the sand, the sight of which caused quite a sensation. Orders were given to scout. Scouters returned with an ox, which was soon killed, and a time of general sharpening of sticks to roast beef for dinner took place. Meanwhile, the officers consulted each others as to the best course to pursue, and decided that the men be divi-ded into tens to examine the most likely places for Indians or to ascertain which way they had gone. This was soon found out, and when the signal was given that the trail had been discovered, the whole company marched up the canyon, leading to what is |