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along a broad ravine to the river, fighting 
furiously as they went, By the tim 
had reached the bottom, we had vane wal 
dispersed them, and the old bull hobbled off 
Ws lie down somewhere. One of his 
on the ground — we had 
fired upon them, and we s 
short time to cut from him oo meat for our 
me We had igiagaes to sec 
it into his reels to st 
tunately, rea was well secure 
that nothing, not even the barometer, was in 
the least i —_ 
The ing low, and so 
row lince of i timber ae or me sor tage distant 
a pleasa’ mp, where, with 
ity of stood for 2 sa comfortable shel- 
ur animals, we pecan 
th 
ed feet wide, sunk some thirty feet below 
the level of the prairie, with perpendicular 
ks, bordered by a fringe of green cotton- 
the 
ith the the 
tte bottom, the country seemed to be of a 
c , dry, and id of 
y moisture, 
Teming off towards the river, we reach 
bank in about a mile, a were de lighted to 
find an old tree, with 
wind eine 
wa 
ometer 81°, adele a strong 
20° E., and the sky i 
CAPT, FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
overed with | d 
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fe aap g 2 and ig agus, the i onedions 
bafiele, too, cagnrtp the day fons had been so 
ef 
w vith the glass, but no living object was to be 
For pert als Se ae wo, the ground 
was me ith b carcasses, which 
showed that the at idey had madea ren. We 
force. 
here, and ick in pang = 
went on quickly and cautio 
river bottom, ee carotuly voing ne hills; 
o grow apc Aas alread: 
lost one of our ae and ok Pacis i 
wed sympto: giving < out, and finally 
8 
met with n 
sho’ 
refused to mh ead ae at the Canadians 
call resié. He. therefore dismounted, and 
Sor per along aie him; but this was. 
ve y way of t velling. 
verte got ives g half a mile in advarice, 
but our Cheyennes, who were 
mile or. two in the rea r; a remainel with sect 
and un dulati n 
mated and disen- 
nstruments, we might have set 
m at ane = as it was, we 
fairly caught. it 
friends, and we to gain a clump 
red to 
of timber aint half a on 3 ahead. but the 
ti 
sufficiently clear for onom: obserya- | 
sane a —— i ltitade 40°93 26", up da 
wu 
‘37, 
8.—The mo ee ng was very pleasant. 
“Fhe breeze was fresh from S. 50° E. with 
few clouds; praca eease 6 o’clock stand- 
rene oae. reer ha 
at 25.970, and the thermometer at 70°. 
Since leaving the forks, our route had passed 
“@ country alternately clay and sand, 
— g the same waste. On 
leaving camp this Ty SAB 
peared somew! 
which wend ebored forthe at fw day 
and on the ite side of the river were 
groves of timber. 
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