Carson as a great hero who was able to slay Indians by scores. This
book was shown to Kit and was the first of the kind he had ever seen.
After glancing at it he made the remark, "that perhaps Mrs. White,
to whom it belonged, knowing he lived not very far off, had prayed to
have him make his appearance and assist in freeing her. He wished that
it might have been so, but consoled himself by thinking that he had
performed his duty." While on their route back to Taos, the command
was overtaken by a terrible snow storm which was accompanied by a high
wind; as there were no hills to break its force, it amounted almost
to a tornado. The snow was driven with such force into the men's faces
that they became nearly blind, and were bewildered as to the course
they should travel. During its continuance, they wandered about on the
prairies. Finally they were so fortunate that at last they reached a
clump of timber in the neighborhood of _Las Vegas_ in New Mexico; but,
during the tramp, one man had been frozen to death and others had come
near to perishing.

After arriving in the settlements; the party learned from some
friendly Indians, that the Apaches had suffered severely by being
exposed to this same storm, and the report was that many of them had
since died in consequence thereof. From this, it would appear as if
an all seeing power had protected the whites, while it had dealt out
a fearful judgment upon these wicked savages, who have more than vague
ideas of the sin of murdering, in cold blood, innocent people, sages
and philanthropists far distant and safe in great cities to the
contrary notwithstanding. There are no set of men in the world who can
draw the line between right and wrong based on its first principle,
and taught to them by the great lessons of nature, as can many tribes
of Indians. Among themselves, and especially among their individual
bands, in regard to all crimes, the Indian has his moral code of laws