1842.] a 
of the herd, ; giving my horse tlie ae eal 5 — 
td ofthe hed, nd after them. thick cloud dedolsesbty will tiabereah @ pass- 
of dust pon their rear, which filled od mi an encampment of the Oregon emi- 
my mouth and eyes, and nearly smothe grants, where they red to have reposed 
me. I t of this I could see nothing, | several days. A variety of household arti+ 
and -he buffalo were not distinguishable a cles were s and they had pro- 
Saas 
h hey crowded toge 
more densely still as I came upon them oie 
rushed along in sucha compact body, that I 
could not obtain an entrance—the “0h al- 
most leaping upon them. In afew 
divided to the ci and ‘left, tho 
horns clattering with a noise heard a 
everything else, ‘ores od in 
e opening. Five or six bulls charged on 
us as we dashed eae the line, but were left 
far behind ; and, singling out a cow, I gave 
her my‘ t struck too high. the gave 
a treme p, and scou n swifter 
dog-vil- 
or four holes i in e 
the hie dark line caravan © wling 
along, three or miles distant. After a 
march of a Ba miles, we encamped at 
fall, one m a half above the lower 
dof Brady’s The breadth of this 
arm of the river was eight hundred and 
eighty yards, and the water re twi 
feet in depth. The itis bea we the name of 
a man killed on this spot go 
ears a. 
party had encamped bate, three in com- 
pasif, and one of the number went off to hunt, 
leavin mee Brad is companion together. 
These two had aa pot qparrelled, and on 
the heater’ s return he sa Brady dead, and 
d himself accident- 
His 
Te 
wolves, tary Poeged were hanging on the skirts of 
oO rac the 
reid 
during heen night, venturing almost i into camp. 
suet sort were sitting at a short 
pg Be Herron — and lunar di: 
distance, barking, and 
vance to recon , marched dirty io for 
hie mouth of the "Sou h fork. On our 
val, the ee were sent in and scattered 
river to search the 
places, and the carts followed immediatel 
The s 
wo thousand twa 
ree Arti hat 
deeper, having dioqantaly three feet water in 
the numerous small channels, with a bed of 
ue gravel. e whole breadth of the 
ebraska, reget wrth below abies junction, is 
| five thousand three hundred and - feet. 
in ; 
All our equipage had reuahed 
a ely hones amit, HP 
eighteen miles westwardly to the bordering 
chills, where iis five and a half m miles wide. 
it Is Cuvee 
and along the banks is a slight tt scattered 
in ‘ott and willow. In the. 
saline 
