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Q.  I merely ask for inforation,
Q4  V'el, my opinion is that they do2  I don't know anything about it   
I
    never lived with then0c
Yo ou state that you hAd gone to the hill and found that Gen, Custer's tra-.
    passed near there, Explaain when you found that trall0
A.I After coming up from the bottom, my attention was called to it.-
Q. Who called your, attention to it?
A   That I caanot say. It was after returning from. Lieutf Hodgson's body
    that it was reported, and I went to see Ivt,
Did y.i ou recognize it to be his trail?
A3 Jeo't. at all;  I recognized it to be the tzixl o f shod horses,
Q0  Capt , Benteen had arrived before that tibne?
As. Yes, sir0
Q0  Then in all probability, it could not have been thrat of' any other colaum
    but Cu.sterl2s?
A0  I think so.
l You read the order that Capt, Benteen received frora Gen. Custer?
A.  Yes,,
QC? 'ou omitted two words in repeating it. I would like you to state the
    exact wrords,.
A-, . do not reaternber the exact phraseology. As near as I can reiuember
it
    wN18as. "lBenteen;  Come on;  big village;  bie thing;  bring packs.
P.> St>
    Bring packs.
D Do you remember the words ebe quick?'l
A0 Yes, X do, now that you cal1 my attentioin to it.
(z,  Would you, as anr officer, regtard th-t as a direction that le would
bring
    the packs on n.rto th.he fight, or bring them within easier reach to
out
    them in a defensible positivion?
A, I rthink the latter supposition would be correct,
&  -Then how did that portion strike you, if yotv reflected upon it?
A,, It did not make any grea-t Ji-npression on me at the time, because I
was
    absorbed in getting those packs tocether;  and did not intend to move
    until I had dlone so,,
    ! Vronr thie number of Indians you saw around -you and your estimate
of the
    number that were tnere, did it occur to you at the time that with only
    225 -ien the might nmed some one to "be quLie Ck?
A, It never occurred to me at all., Two hundred amd twenty-five could hold
    off quite a number of Indians if they are properly disposed0
    \thaL nuAber o-' In iaris do youx refer to?3
A. T, he rrwnuber thiat I saw