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104 on the Big Sioux, learned that Inkpaduta had white captives at Lake Herman and went out to attempt their rescue. They were

able, with the means at hand, to secure the purchase of only one of the women. Mrs. Marble was selected and they took her back to the settlements.

Two missionaries, Drs. Riggs and Williamson, and the Indian agent Judge Charles E. Flandrau, at once undertook to secure the rescue of the other captives.

They knew it to be impossible for white men to approach Inkpaduta's camp, so they asked Indians to volunteer to go. Three Christian Indians, John Other Day, Paul Mazakutemane, and Iron Hawk, undertook the mission. They were well supplied with provisions and goods to trade for the captives. They