CHAPTER, TWELVE 
THE CROSSING OF THE MOUNTAINS— 
THE GRIZZLY BEAR 
N JULY toth we left the Green River 
and the rendezvous. Our party con- 
sisted of the former traveling compan- 
ions, of Captain Armedinger, the agent 
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of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort 
Hall on the Snake River, who had vis- 
ited the rendezvous with about a dozen of his men, 
of some trappers going back again to their craft, 
and of several hundred Indians, chiefly Flatheads, on 
their return to their home across the mountains. The 
mixed procession presented indeed an original appear- 
ance. he inhabitants of a great city would give 
much to see such a caravan passing through their 
streets. In motley confusion whites and Indians, 
Squaws and children, scurried past each other, The 
men let their eyes rove about in search of game, and 
as soon as a shy antelope came in view, a great blood- 
thirsting gang rushed after it, to return after some 
time generally without any success. The squaws, 
