cal 
* 
ye telly to conceal su proceeding from 
vy ed eyes of our Cheyenne oe 
I therefore 
and see 
They woul eouni< oie 
urn and destro 
fork, the prairie bo rding us a fair 
road ; but in the long grass we y 
f ui and. flies, from which our 
a suffered erely. T 
and the plains on the opposite side were co- 
vered with buffalo. Having travelled twenty-. 
ve mi m 6 in the evening ; 
f the buffalo, 
ves in num urrounded us | ca 
during the night, crossing and recrossing 
it an 
the opposite s to our camp, 
howling and trotting about in the river unti: 
men 
—The morning was very smoky, 
the sun shining — and red, as in a thick 
sed with a salute at 
Whi 
- reakfast, a buffalo ik broke 
ugh the camp, followed by a couple of 
wolves. In its fright, it had 
taken us for a oO. 
to make a circuit 
a 
The wolves 
the eat _ ~— wpe start, 
herd atthe fost 
the ‘hills, caters foes miles 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
around the,| 5) 
friends at pro 
oe supply of excellent preserves and rich 
off | fi ; and when these were added to 
[1842. 
Apacs is morning nume- 
small creeks which, in the 
rou of 
time of rains asl me snow, pour down 
from the ridge, ng down with th 
ays great quantities of sand 1, 
the surrounding prairie, without any 
the long yellow and winding line of their 
s resembles a causeway from t 
ri any. mi 
grt with sunflow 
ew minutes column a: 
are ffalo neues . galloping eth 
making directly to the r By 
ing herds had reached the ent tha 
ing the eo 
feet sai, tag cals = ina ine, jess were 
already eleven thous m 
ea sie eye coul > 
Yottiarge tebetry ee as we advanced, an te 
pace of only two or three hundred yards. 
This movement of By buffalo indicated to 
the presence of Indians on the north 
fork. 
6 
Ited earlier than usual, about forty 
I 
is | miles from the junction, and ee sy were 
soon busily engaged in to 
celebrate the day. The bind kindness of our 
E iouis had provided us with a 
_ fs a ain in sharp pa end coe, 
Tevel region, something of a picturesque ap- 
ee She errs | re 
the Roman epicure at his perfumed f 
But most of all it “d to our In- 
dian friends, who, in the unrestrained enjoy- 
ment of the ed to know if 
our “ ine days came often.” No re- 
aaah coal di tint hoapitadbe be 
