Our "mosers," or mule drivers treated us most insolently but we could not do anything because Jeffs.
had engaged them and we did not want to interfere with his authority but at a place the last day out one of them told Jeffs.

he lied and that we all lied.

He had lost or stolen a canteen of Griscom's and they had said we had not given it to him.

Jeffs.

went at him right and left and knocked him all over the shop.