1842.) 
ee ne and almost eve 
toe ey such as guns 
who could 
viest loss was 
iaied nearly all our prov 
which none bat a rab ei ina Papen 
and apse vse fr appreciate ; and 
often afterw en exc alive toil and lon 
had ween us with fatigue and 
remembered and mourn 
Carson and 
n the water zor 
terday, and both, in etinserjuenee, “hen or 
ill. The former Ceara so, In ined 
in camp. umbe Kansas Tohons 
visited us to-da Going up to one of the 
aps who were scattered among the trees, 
found one sitting o 
B 
izing well with their appearance. I listened 
some time with feelings of strange 
curiosity and interest. He was now 60 
rently thirty-five years of age; and, 
quiry, I lea at he had been at at St Lous 
hen a boy, and t 
/ French language. From one of te Tole 
women I ned a fine and calf in ex- 
change for a yoke of oxen. Several of them 
brought us He pages pumpkins, onions, 
beans, and let One of them brought 
ma _ f-breed near the river 
to obtain some twenty 
. The dense tim- 
ber in which we had encamped interfi 
with astronomical observations, and our wet 
res required exposure to the 
sun. Accordingly,the tents were struck early 
the next morning, and, leaving camp at six 
o'clock, about seven miles up 
Tiver, : n prairie, som 
twenty feet above the water, where the fine 
asduxurious repast to 
During the day we occupied ourselves in | ter 
astronomical obse: 
rvations, in order | miles to the left, by 
to lay down the country to this place; it | of a cluster of huts near the 
being our custom to keep up our map regu- | Vermillion. It was a large but 
et de in the field, which we found 
advan The 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
not swim, | had n 
, &; 
to be time to for sie chances of : 
os toe weridleeeae, ati 
Friday, June 17.—The w 
ot permitted us to m 
tions I was des pathy obtain here, and I | 
erefore did not move to-day. 
continued ng target ches In the steep 
ba er here, w ts of innu- 
and w 
to dr oO shot wounded him, 
being killed, he was cut o n, an ei. : 
young swallows were eee in his body. A 
sudden storm, that upon us in the af — 
rt lgraits to the Columbia | 
river, under the charge of Dr. White, an; 
a f the Government i Or Te } 
ey consisted of men, women, and — 
There were sixty-four men, and 
ixteen or seventeen families. They had a 
poole ble number o tle, and were — 
transporting their household furniture in 
1s. lunderstood that there — 
our camp this 8 evening, we ayailed ou 
of 7 miioks to the States to write to our 
frienc 
T - morning of the 18th was very unplea- 
sant. fine rain was falleet. with cold | 
ind from the north, a ' 
met 8 hills ens mea. and goon. 
mp a n, journeyi 
of ‘the hills ‘which border the 
