md-day halt was at Wyeth’s creek, in 
the bed of ies were numerous boulders 
of dark proginons Sen on mingled with 
others of the red sandstone already men- 
tioned. sa ’ pack of Site lying loose 
ked an 
at 10 a. m., a very bea wooded stream, 
about thirty-tiv ve feet wile called Sandy 
ereek, and so’ : Ottoe 
sandy, and the 
, plants less va abundant, "with the 
- exception of the amorphe, w ich rivals ie 
in quantity, though we so forward a: 
it has been found to the eastward. 
ye agg a Sina eres we had intended 
was to be found. The bed 
of the ‘hittle es was perfectly dry, ands on 
the adjacent pati bottom, cacti, for t 
time, made their 
after a hard day’ f twenty-eight 
miles, encamped, at - o'clock, on the Little 
Blue, where our arri of the 
Arabian desert. As fs as they arrived, men 
-and horses rushe the stream, where 
pets bathed and recy tom in common 
en et ike now in the range of 
pik ey 0 : infest 
ing and Bane lh rea and aes 
them to various kinds of insu! or the 
Srst snarefore, guard was mounted to- 
night. next m g lay up 
rs oa sd 
the Eg which, bordered “ hills ‘with 
ed onl 
a erase 
bout fifty 
; feet wide, and three or four deep, fringed ringed by 
of oak tenanted by Books of sacks op cma 
a too, made i r 
sand now and antelo 
in 
anges prairies, several miles fro 
sunset on ini of 
abundance of 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. : 
t} wil 
e | the valley. iA wimg were 
in greate: 
Elk were _renenty seen on the | 
incessantly, aad en 
abe with ees ngs ee om and then iltumine 
ated by a binding re be en Fe 
darkness watch from ten 
to midnight <4 he aly had been assigned 
of desperate and bl Indian te 
rife in the ca 
su 
hollows, and occupyi 
ec 
some imaginary alarm; ‘but they it 
ont and took their turn regularly after- 
ard. 
Se 
The xt morning we had a 
the false gore to which all 
regions are yang 
specimen of 
quan in these 
eeding up 
en on the oppo- 
site hills, which een red before a glass 
uld bi ug ace 
co broug r upon them. A 
m O was a Te distance in the rear, 
came spurring up in t ing | 
Indians! Indians! e been near 
enough to see and count them, according to | 
his rt, a) made out twenty-seven. 
Ti iately 3 arms were 
and put in order; the usual 
made ; and Kit Carso: 
rson. springing upon one 
e hunting horses, ¢ ¢ rossed the river, and 
galloped off into the o opposite prairies, to ob- 
tain some certain intelligence of their move- 
ments, 
Mounted on a fine nate without a saddle, 
and scouring barehi r the prairies, 
Kit was one of the finest pictures of ‘horse. 
man A short ti 
who had been panei Si. = 6 snag 
Van as it. pases by, and were now scamper- 
off at full speed. This was’ our. fivet 
