1842.] 
to drag their 
ouly two or three miles in as many days. 
8 they would ae a arm of the 
river, where there appe 
and 
sandbat raged, at 
ence ae Md finding th e Plat ph ing eve 
ay more rae these discharged the prin- 
cipal part of their cargoes one hundred and 
gua , attem con- 
tinue their voyage, eed with some light 
furs an r personal baggage. After fif- 
the 
ey made but one hun- 
aed and forty eae they sunk their barges, 
he of thei 
made a cac ir remaining furs and 
property, in pee on the bank eae peticag 
on his back what an man co rry, had 
mmences befo one we enconatered 
them, their j lata on foo - Loui 
We lan Aas en at their forlorn and vag- 
abond appeara: and, in our turn, a month 
or two of A ae hed the same occa- 
sion for afta a Even their 
stock of tobacco, ine qué non of a voy- 
iad withoat wi which the eae fire is Sea 
was rely wever, we 
aera their bones: journey by a at 
supply from our own provision. gave 
us the welcome Sat bags that the buffalo 
were abundant so rch in ad 
Ss 
< 
k. In the interchange of 
* the renewal of old ° poner 
wise we found wherewith 1a busy 
e unt ges and 
re 
h rt m 
found an old ¢ companion on the northern 
ee a whet and hardly served seeree a 
the been as much 
ns, who had 
old moust is 
_ He flourished in 
« and hi 
CAPT, FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
hens thepoah thecane, making | bo 
coats ve: 
of 
if 
which | 
our lasses made out to tai Pad am 
spend to be | ~ qui 
atthe 
y of thirteen. About a month since, 
had left their people on the south fork 
retur They were miser- 
Title is ounted on wild horses from the Ark- 
nsas plains, and had no r Weapons than 
s and long spears they been 
discovered by wnees, could not, by 
any possibility, have esca y were 
ortified by their ill success, and sai 
awnees were cowards, nie: ‘shut up their 
horses in their lodges a t night. Tin 
them to supper 
sat dow 
rty, 
ment at the der of whites, hastened to 
join company. Latitude of the camp 
o.51 >, 
amorpha. uring the | 
morning "had Aaa. 9 toa vioest gale from 
the no rthwest, whic h made o ate es 
