at 
ois. 7.—At about 10 o’clock, the . 
and we continued our jour ney 
Seccenie a country which offered but little to 
mre the eee. The soil was much 
re sandy than valley below the con- 
yous of the forks, Ae the face of the 
try no longer presented the refreshing 
which had hitherto «Lael 
d it. 
The rich grass was now found only in dis- | 
unds, and the | mous 
rsed meri on low gro 
So itcon Is the streams. A long drought, 
so parched up 
2. 
& 
3% 
grass en 
nders it cic a Pa 
tible to the peat of the clim: 
2S. 
tic sandstone. h a formation cannot give 
rise to a sterile soil; and, on our n in 
September, when the count wa- 
tered by frequent rains, Vv of the 
tree or 2s xa stand- 
r bank, 
there is none whate 
‘uly 8.—Our ud to-day was abedy | 9 
stray antelope; and 
nothing occu to break the monotony 
until about 5 o’cleck, when the carav 
made a sudden There was a gallo 
from. 
nois 
own . country. 
As the sun was low, was a fine 
grass patch not far aly agg 
i for the night e 
with us. M 
meg 2 st supper ; and, afte the 
mov me liste ned with 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE, 
of their adven- 
be 
disposed, had broken out into . 
eli and in the preceding autumn 
a severe en- 
mate “knowledge of the coun 
reach 
throu, 
the Back hills, and avoided coming into 
ith tte ies. 
were 
their pipes, and listening with pe ee 
rated details of Indian 
rhess to exagger 
hostilities ; and in the ing I found the 
comp dispirited, and agitated by a variety of 
icting opinions. A majority of the peo- 
ple were strongly dis to return; but 
Clément Lambert, with some five or six oth- 
ers, professed their determination to follow 
Mr. Fremont to the utterm i 
and, 
ted, | their pages ps nate to advance at 
lez far Laramie fork, eastward of 
rT 
ast so as 
[184a. 
valley. Availing himself of his inti- — 
ais = gla lad demaarai taal Slahilian tninibinats 
