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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS be well to state that the fish in this locality go up the small streams to spawn in such numbers that they can hardly move. We cleaned and salted what we had taken, and got the Indians to dry and smoke them and bring them to Cedar Grove in Grass Val-ley twelve days later two seamless sacks full. We prepared supper early, and after picketing and hob-bling our horses ( keeping them between our camp and the lake) we made our beds scattered in the brush. It was agreed that all were to keep quiet and lie low. Tabiona, my father or A. K. Thurber being the only ones allowed to talk. Not long after dark, our horses began to snort and make an awful fuss, trying to get loose. Tabiona called out and be-gan talking; then also my father and Thurber. Ta-biona spoke again, and finally two old squaws an-swered him and came into camp. We gave them presents and sent them back to their camp; they soon returned with about half the tribe. Old Poga-neab ( Fish captain) their chief, tried to keep them from coming and was on the fight. A little later most of his fighting men came in and said it was safe to build fires, and about midnight the chief and his two squaws, and eight or ten more, came into camp. We talked to them, and gave them presents till about two o'clock in the night. We then sent them to their camp, but told them to come back in the morning. We had a big talk all day. At the meeting Tabiona spoke and said that when at Washington visiting the Great White Chief ( President TJ. S. Grant) he saw three persons of fine appearance, |