"stood off " the savages till dark. Then cautiously crawling away on

his belly to a deep ravine, he lay close, suffering terribly from his

wound, till the following night, when, setting out for Fort Wallace,

he arrived there the succeeding day, almost crazed from pain and

Simultaneously with the fiendish atrocities committed on the Saline

and Solomon rivers and the attack on Comstock and Grover, the

pillaging and murdering began on the Smoky Hill stage-route, along

the upper Arkansas River and on the headwaters of the Cimarron. That