the backward road was covered with the re- the mouth of 
t horsemen. It was a pleasant con- | one of the most considerable afiluents of the 
trast with the dese: we had been trav- South fork, la Fourche aux Castors eee 
elling. Several had join ampeny with ly ot eee in the ridge to 
us, ne of the chiefs invited us to eas 
lodge. The village’ consisted of about on —This morning we caught the 
hundred and twenty-five » of which | first feist ‘glimpse of the y ntains, 
twenty were Cheyennes; the latter pitched | about sixty miles distant. ugh a 
a a the They | ably bright day, there ue a slight 
wee nar jeg te ina on ps we were ‘geal able rn the snowy : sum- 
f a broad eameie street, about one | mit of ‘ ak 
Gavdred and _ fifty am fase and ranning of the Cont ians), showing like a) Sol 
mers the river. ong, I re 
m near some of he 3 a kind "of 
tip pea —— of three slender poles of 
ped very clean, to which were 
ing impulse, and tou 
shields with the muzzle of m 
upon, 
wookin ‘dish of buffalo, 
menced our din- 
iced. 5 smoke. Grad- 
wid five or six other chiefs came in, and 
ir seats in silence. When we had 
e the 
paral apg to the establishment of 
tary posts on the way to the mountains. 
‘Althouse an was information of the high- 
Ro interest eS them, and by no means caleu- 
to cited 
e them, it expres- 
Pe of spi and in no were altnEes the 
grave court tia their deme: 
others li 
pi with some i was 
Ss me mi 
Cha tonard 
cloud near = horizon. I found it 
eee there being a perceptible 
$ appearance from the w 
‘clouds. ay sea! foating: bes the 
leased to fin 
PFE 
in towards the river, an 
rode 
ut eight miles 
ra our sleeping place we reached Bijou’s 
uent of the right bank.. Where 
