I accompanied this detachment, and on the third day out we found the half-famished soldiers camped on the Polladora.

The camp presented a pitiful sight, indeed.

For over two weeks the men had had only quarter rations, and were now nearly starved to death.

Over two hundred horses and mules were lying dead, having died from fatigue and starvation.
General Penrose, having feared that General Carr would not find him, had sent back a company of the Seventh Cavalry to Fort Lyon for supplies; but no word as yet had been heard from them.

The rations which Major Brown brought to the command came none too soon, and were the means of saving many a life.
[Illustration: A WELCOME VISITOR] About the first man I saw after reaching the camp was my old, true and tried friend, Wild Bill.