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RECAPITULATION. 



Officers 13 



Civilians * 8 



Enlisted men 56 



Packers 37 



Blacksmith 1 



Scouts - - 2 





Hunter 



1 



Indians 6 



Servants 5 



Total 1 129 



Horses 



83 



Mules 157 



Bell horses 3 



Indian horses IS 



Total, 261 



August 6, Sunday. — Remained in camp. During the day several 

 members of our party employed their leisure in visiting the post and 

 in examining the wonderful petroleum spring (Tar Spring it should be 

 called), which is nearly opposite our camp and about a half mile north of 

 the Little Wind River. In the evening we were visited by some of the 

 officers of the garrison and by many Arapahoe Indians, including Black 

 Coal, head chief, and Sharp Nose, second chief. Washakie, chief of the 

 Shoshones, whose tepees are about 5 miles up the river, was coming to 

 visit the General at our camp, but met him at the trader's store in the 

 morning. He is a noble-looking old savage, but walks and stands erect? 

 and wears his long, gray hair flowing down over his shoulders. Wash- 

 akie and his sons cultivate by irrigation two considerable patches of 

 ground on the Little Wind River. The labor, however, is mostly 

 done by proxy, their squaws acting in the latter capacity. 



August 7, Monday. — Broke camp at 6.15 a. m., crossed the Little Wind 

 River at Fort Washakie, and marched nearly north over a rolling, bar- 

 ren country to the Wind River. The latter part of the march was tire- 

 some to those of the party who had not been on horseback for a long 

 time, and the more so because the weather was very hot and the coun- 

 try dry and dusty. It had been the General's intention to camp on 

 Sage Creek, 10 miles out, but when we arrived there we found only a 

 eage brush bottom, warm water, and little gram, so he concluded to go 

 to the Wind River, where we found a pleasant camp, with plenty of those 

 prime necessities for an outfit like ours — wood, water, and grass. The 

 river was so swollen and roily from recent heavy rains in the mountains 

 that there was no fishing. Temperature at 3 p. m., 83° ; distance 

 marched, 17 miles. 



August 8, Tuesday. — Broke camp at 6.15 a. in. and marched up the left 

 bank of the Wind River past Crow Heart Butte, a notable landmark of 



