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264 JOSE. to his view, he could hardly distinguish anything. The bodies of men and animals filled the immediate vicinity of the trail where but shortly before the fight had raged, and between these he saw the whites seated at short distances apart, or gathering into small groups. At the first glance Bob dlis- covered that at least double the number of men were on the field than had originally engaged in the fight. He saw the largest portion of these gather at a certain point and was in the act of turning his steps in that direction, when suddenly he encountered Baumann, rising from the ground. Several men were together in the grass, side by side. The next instant the old hunter was out of the saddle at his companion’s: side. Baumann, silently extending his hand, pointed with the other at the ground, where two men were lying extended in the disturbed grass. From the side of the first a broad-shouldered figure arose witha shake of the head, and Bob’s gaze fell upon the familiar features of the freighter, now covered with clotted blood. A blow with a tomahawk had split his skull up to his forehead. “He honestly discharged the debt he believed he owed!” Baumann said, in a muffled tone; “it’s doubtful whether I should have escaped mole and hearty as I did had not his mad strokes protected us. I missed him from my side and found him lying next to Green whom, it appears, he sought to shield.” Bob cast a short glance at the other body about which two persons were busily employed, then bent down over the freighter, clasping his hang aoe was already cold. “He has met a beautiful death, aah as ; every true: (E(0) m Eomicho aks