we wanted to see what they would do. At last the bugle sounded “Halt!” Sister said, “Now we will have some fun.” We just laughed, for we knew what was coming. The captain of the volunteer scouts rode up to General Howard and said,—
“General, don’t you see them on that hill, yonder?” The General said, “I see something, but I don’t see them moving.”
“I do—they are there to fight us. They have a good place up there.”
Then General Howard called me and I went up to him. All the officers were there together. He said, “Sarah, what have you got to say now? The Indians seem to be there.”
“I have the same thing to say as before. I see nothing but rocks put there to deceive you.”
The officers took out their field-glasses and looked up and said, “Sarah, it surely looks like people there.”
I said, “Well, I can’t say any more. Do as you think best.”
One of them gave me a field-glass and told me to look. I said, “I will show you that there are no Indians there. I will go up there.”
So I started to go, when General Howard called me back and said, “I don’t want you to get killed. I will send the troops up.”
They found everything just as I had told them.
How they did laugh that evening when we camped for the night. It is a way by which we Indians do deceive the white people by piling rocks on each other and putting round ones on the top to make them look like men. In this way we get time to get away from our enemy.
In the morning we took up the trail in good earnest. At the dawn of the 28th we were at the end of the
