Pe ee ee eae eee Ge ee 
er was rol in the ieee and 
n the a 
ae 
s and 
and life of the prairie, 
camp was full ~ mio! popes In | soi 
quiet mo the march, relie “So 
sted by the making ‘ the wh ip, and a 
-sgaeetyat ! enfant eer eR 
sounded die every part of the 
he 
4 
cat teke 
bread or they were enjoying g the 
oasis of a nace life. Three co 
killed to-day. Kit Carson had hata one, and 
was continuing the chase in the midst of 
nerd, when his horse fell eg 
ing band. 
somely mount- 
e found that his 
ie wit ith him. Ani- 
mals are frecjnitatly lost i in this et ; and it 
to keep close over them, 
of 
point o ti 
he ‘on of his idle ‘ hand 
ed Spanish one), w 
horse w: 
is necessary to 
in the vicinity of the bu in the midst 
which they scour off to the plains, and 
retaken. our mules took a 
joined a 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
feeding ; and every- | 
be: Hines add ens |e 
and cg together. 
tia. bere in the dust. 
t 
[1842, 
pte cent yap gave us a fine opportunity to 
nk was they — oe among the 
river hil It was too fine t for a 
chase a, halting for a fev mo- 
ments, the hunters were brought up and sad- 
dled, and Kit agent Maxwell, and I, started 
now somewha 
th mile distant, and we rode 
along inti within about 
e sta gethe p, riding 
steadily abreast of each other, and ‘here the 
interest of the chase became so en ingly 
i thing else 
movement had communicated itself to the 
whole herd. 
A crowd of bulls, as usual, oe up the 
rear, and every now a oa then e of them 
faced about, and then ished 6 ei ‘afta? the 
band a short distance, Sere turned a ked 
again, as if more than half inclined to s 
and fight. In a few moments, however, du- 
ring og we had been quickening our pace, 
the rout was universal, and we were going 
over the Eaton like : arith cane. Whenat 
about thirty yards, we gave the usual shout 
(the inter s pas de aherigey: am Lee e into 
the herd. We entered on the the mass 
giving way in every direction in : their heed- 
less course. Many of the bulls, less active 
than the cows, paying no at- 
tention to the ground, and occupied solely 
orce, rolling over and over with 
shock, gir hardly ste 
’e separal 
with great for 
us violence of the 
