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Show Instead of continuing west, we only descended far enough below the Summit to hide ourselves and turned north, and continuing this course for two or three miles when we thought our pursuers were about gaining the Summit we turned again upon an eastern side of slopes and droped into a little hollow where we waited for the daylight to disappear. This completely foiled our enemies, for the ground was so hard and stony that they could not discover our tracks and as the half grown moon began to shed its silver rays upon the mountain slope, we remounted and bounded over the prairie towards the point from whence we had set out. We reached the farm at about 8 p.m. and found about one hundred of our red friends anxiously waiting our return and who manifested great joy at our arrival. My first inquiry was where the Mormons were when twenty voices shouted "Cotchcarry Mormon" (not here Mormon). I had left some 45 head of horses and mules and was about inquiring for them when I discovered that they were upon the backs of the most of them. They trhen stated how they had sallied out during the day and driven the enemy out of the canyon with threats of what course they should pursue in the event that I and my comrades were murdered. Taking some bread and meat that we found in the cellar we made our escape up the Spanish Fork in the direction of the Uinta Country, and before 10 oclock the next day had placed ourselves quite beyond the reach of |