72 INAKUATIVK OF A JOURNEY 



CHAPTER V. 



,1rrival at the Colorado — The author in difficulty — Loss of a journal, and 

 advice to travelling tyros— The rendezvous — SMotlei/ groups infesting it — 

 Rum drinking, swearing, and other accomplishments in vogne — Description 

 of the camp — Troid and grayling — Mundauce of game — Cock of the plains — 

 Departure from the rendezvous — ^in accession to the band — ..^ renegado 



Blackfoot chief Captain Stetuart and JMr. Jlshworth — JMuddy creek — 



Jtfore carousing — Mundance of trout — Bear river — A hard day''s march — 

 Volcanic country — IJ'hite claii pits and ''Beer spring" — Bare birds and com- 

 monbirds — Mr. Thomas J\lc Kay — Rough and arid country — JMeeting -with 

 Captain Bonneville's party — Captains Stewart and Jl'yeth's visit to the 

 lodge of the "bald chief" — Blackfoot river — Adventure with a grizzly 

 bear — Death of '• Zip JCoon^' — Young grizzly bears and buffalo calves — A 

 Blackfoot Indian — Dangerous experiment of JMcKay — the three " Tc/ons" — 

 Large trout — Departare of our Indian companions — Shoshone river — Site of 

 " Fori Hall" — Preparations for a buffalo hunt. 



June 19</t. — We arrived to-day on the Green river, Siskadee, 

 or Colorado of the west, — a beautiful, clear, deep, and rapid 

 stream, v/hich receives the waters of Sand}', — and encamped 

 upon its eastern bank. After making a hasty meal, as it was 

 yet early in the day, I sallied forth with my gun, and roamed 

 about the neighborhood for several hours in quest of birds. On 

 returning, towards evening, I found that the whole company had 

 left the spot, the place being occupied only by a few hungry 

 wolves, ravens, and magpies, the invariable gleaners of a for- 

 saken camp. 



I could not at first understand the meaning of all I saw. I 

 thought the desertion strange, and was preparing to make the 

 best of it, when a quick and joyful neigh sounded in the bushes 

 near mc, and I recognized the voice of my favorite horse. I 



