CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE, [1842 
d found that I had taken my seat among a had taken, in the circumstan. pos 
of fat young puppies. Had I been m insure our safety. In the ru 
nice in such matters, the prejudices of civi- mors we had he I believed there was 
lisation might have interfered with my tran- | much exaggeration, and then they were men 
quillity ; but, fortunately, I am of deli- | accusto this kind of life and to the 
cat aban and continued quietly to empty | country ; at were the d; of 
my platte every day occurrence, and to in 
The weather was seme, . perenne, with | the ordinary e serv y 
south wind, an he thermometer had heard of the unsettled condition of the 
uis, and 
at 64°, 
€ on, accompanied 
bout an hour, During’ e day the expected 
village arrived, consisting eringipally of ol 
men, women, and childre ey had a 
Their lodges were pitched 
mea and our camp was constantly 
F erarded wiih pee ae of all sizes, from morn- 
of the 
os ae nerally came to drive them all off 
to the vi 
con wy eps ion 
instrament gn to stil ahieaer uses, 
excited awe a 
and those hi ic 
os oe stars 
ein ee 
had page = me ye far successfully, 
out of o} 
t found that rder, and spent 
the greater pe of the is in repairing 
difficulty in 
them—an operation of no 
‘ the midst ‘of the the icone te terruptions to 
which I was ag eh We had the mis- 
‘ fortune to a large thermometer, 
ache poapodars i fifths of a at tage “3 hich 
used to ascertain the temperature of boil- 
ing water, and w:th which I had pies 
None cag, pt beast — 
*s. 
~~. 
- fore could not make it a 
on 
servations = that the chrotwme 
country before leaving St. 
it to 
to come forward and avail himself of the per- 
mission. I ask 
e d let him go y aiter our 
departu re, he engaged h f f 
the forts, and set off wi 
party to the Up- 
per Missouri. I did not think that the situ- 
ation of the country justi 
ing him at en apapealors 
| mi ht eos the lies of sme ofthe en in 
g 
fight with the India 
our oy BOE: and observations, and several 
i ments, were left at the fort. One of 
the gentlemen, Mr. Galpin, took charge of a 
barometer, which he engaged to observe 
during my absence ; oe T entrusted to Ran 
dolph, way of occupa lar 
winding up of two a my chronometers,which 
were amon instruments eft. Our cb 
to 
which the ter 
high ; and this was too small for exact ob-| which I retained for the continuation of our 
ervations. During our stay here, the men vo eenival its rate in sa- 
had been engaged in making numerous re- ner. As deduced t, the 
pairs, ing pack-saddles, and otherwise Gases of Fort Laramie is Th. 01/21" — 
_ preparing for the chances of a rough road | and from thas distance 7k 01’ 29’'; giving | 
an in travel. All things of this na-| for the ad mit ay” 43" 
ture being ready, I gathered them around i ) 
_ , Me im the evening, and told them that “I had ‘made during our sta here, italy 6 0 
“ determined to proceed the next day. They Ss ‘we find for the ele — 
the vation of the fort above the Gulf 
4,470 feet. ‘The winter winter climate hore fr 
—A paste of our baggage, with 
i ek ee ae 
