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Show which in the meantime we were short of provisions and were compelled to submit to the most extreme suffering from hunger during the last two days of our journey, yet throggh all these privations I had the satisfaction to be frequently assured that my companions would feel themselves amply regarded if they could only be the means of restoring me to the bosom of my friends and retrieving me from that danger to which they had so often warned me that my life was exposed. I feel it a duty which I owe to the Utahs, to make as fa/r and candid exposition of these facts for I doubt if ever an agent of the government in the Indian Service witnessed! similar attachment for his person or more loyalty to those laws and regulations which have been instituted for this government than has been manifested on this occasion. The absence of any one in charge of the Superintendency I trust will be a sufficient apology for thus obtruding these facts from your notice. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Garland Hurt Ind. Agt. Col. A.S. Johnson, U.S.A. |