We are not informed how many of either party fell in the fray.

But the Indians seemed to swarm around the trappers in countless numbers, and the white men were, greatly to their chagrin, driven back with the loss of several mules.
As the discomfited party returned with their tale of disaster, the ire of Mr.Young was raised.

It is a comment upon the number of men then roving the wilderness, that Mr.Young was in a short time enabled to organize another party of forty men, to resume the enterprise.

It was a motley collection of Spaniards, Americans, Mexicans and half-breeds.

Proudly this powerful band, well armed, well mounted and with heavily laden pack mules, commenced its adventurous march, burning with the desire to avenge the insult which the previous expedition had encountered.
Mr.Young had learned highly to prize the capabilities of young Carson, and engaged him to take a prominent position in this company on its hazardous tour.