CHAPTER III.

Lorenzo Oatman--Conscious of most of the Scenes of the Massacre--The next Day he finds himself at the Foot of a rocky Declivity, over which he had fallen--Makes an Effort to walk--Starts for Pimole--His Feelings and Sufferings--Is attacked by Wolves--Then by two Indians, who are about to shoot him down--Their subsequent Kindness--They go on to the Place of Massacre--He meets the Wilders and Kellys--They take him back to Pimole--In about one Month gets well, and starts for Fort Yuma--Visits the Place of Massacre--His Feelings--Burial of the Dead--Reflections--The two Girls--Their Thoughts of Home and Friends--Conduct of their Captors--Disposition of the Stock--Cruelty to the Girls to hurry them on--Girls resolve not to proceed--Meet eleven Indians, who seek to kill Olive--Reasons for--Apaches defend her--Their Habits of Fear for their own Safety--Their Reception at the Apache Village--One Year--The Mohaves--Their second coming among the Apaches--Conversation of Olive and Mary--Purchased by the Mohaves--Avowed Reasons--Their Price--Danger during the Debate 90