The troops will have to go forward on foot from here. Bentley orders troops to remove the damaged vehicles on the road.All afternoon the mortar crews ...otate the duty of keeping up a slow and steady stream of mortar shells on the areas where the Dareed troops are moving about. They’re trying to clear away the damaged vehicles, dead, and wounded. Every minute sees an increase in the number of casualties. By 4:00 p.m. they’ve given up trying to remove the damaged vehicles and they’ve deployed. I selected a long white robe and, perhaps feeling a bit self-conscious, left my quarters and joined a number of similarly attired men walking down the hall, into an elevator, and out into the large reception area leading to the Compound. We exchanged small talk, in English and with an obvious enthusiasm for our upcoming “holiday,” but although the men spoke in a variety of accents, I noted that none asked the others for their names or countries of origin. The sun had not quite set as I. It was a group of white miners. The warriors tracking them made sure the white miners won’t steal any more cattle.”I guess that was about as close to an admission that they were being vigilantes as I’d get.Friday, April 11, 1851Our Indian scouts--now a combination of seven different Indian nations, rode up to the house today surrounding a group of twenty very nervous white men. “We insist that you turn over the savages who slaughtered the militia group we sent to deal with the vicious. I remembered their last dance in the bar and stepped back into the shadows out of sight wondering if she'd arranged to meet him. It just didn't make any sense; it was hard to imagine her taking such a chance particularly with the c***dren in the house. Still I hesitated. A part of me, even while automatically trusting her, felt an irrational jealously. I wondered if she had lied about her repulsion to his brash vulgarity. I wondered why she hadn't cried out, or had she while I was sleeping?.