CHAPTER XLVIII.

Affairs at Home--Start for Fort Supply--Illness of myself and Family--Gift of Healing--Trouble with Indians at Fort Supply--Turbulent Red Men--I Help one off my Bed--They Persist In Taking or Destroying our Property--We Stop them--One Attempts to Kill me--Indians Retire from the Fort--Almost a Conflict--I check the White Men from Shooting--Indians Withdraw--We send to Governor Young for Assistance--Our Stock and Guards Driven in--Indian Agent Appears with Annuities--The Savages Submit--We Guard Day and Night--Indians more Peaceful--Reinforcements Arrive from the Governor--Matters Quiet Down.