country; thiat he would kill the men at the ferry, and burn their houses. Immediately after this conversation with the chicf, the white men at and near the ferry-house assembled, and deliberated on the necessity of an immodiate attack on the Indians.

The result of their deliberation, with the full procecdings of their meeting, is herein enclosed. At the conclusion, a courier was despatched to the upper mincs for assistance. A party of about twenty responded to the call, and arrived at the ferry-house on the evening preceding tlie morning of the massacre. On the arrival of this re-enforcement the proceedings of the meeting first held were reconsidered, and unanimously approved.

"At the dawn of day on the morning of the 28th of January the party of the ferry, joined by about twenty men from the uppcr mines, organized, and, in three detachments, marched upon the Indian ranches, and consummated a most inhuman slaughter. A full account of what they terni 'a fight you will find in the re- port the day of the massacre.

The Indians were roused from sleep to meet their death, with but feeble show of resistanco. They were shot down as they were attempting to escape from their houses; fifteen men and one squaw killed ; two squaws badly wounded. On the part of the white men, not cven the slightest wound was reccived. The louses of the Iudians, with but one cxception, were fired, and en- tirely destroyed. Thus was committed a massacre too inhuman o be readily believed. Now for my examination of this horrid nffair. hieh their captain, George H. Abbott, forw me on

"On the morning of the 29tlh of January I left Port Orford for the Coquille We arrived at the ferry-house early in the evening of that day. Early in the morning of the day after my arrival I sent for the chief, who imunediately camo in, attended by about thirty of his people. The chicf, as well as his pcople, was so greatly alarmed-apparently apprehensive that the white men would kill them even in my prescncethat it was with a good deal of difficulty that I could induce him to express his mind frecly. He scemed only anxious to stipulate for pence and the future safety of his people; and to procure this he was willing to accept any terms that I might dictate. The chicf was evidently afraid to complain of or censure the slaughterers of his tribe, and for a time replied to all the charges mado against him with hesi- tuncy. After repcatcd assurances of protection, he finally nnswer ed to the point every interrogutory. I asked him if he had at any