32 CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 1842, 
po mann tie lager ricesin f think it necessary to” this fact, be- 
‘Eastward of that meridian. oe cause to the rapid» ion in such an 
Tr “objects which strike the eye of a | elevated region, nearly thousand feet 
are the absence mt timber, and the above the sea, almost y unprotected by 
Sean expanse of prairie, covered with | timber, should be attributed much of the 
the verdure of rich drideeneiih highly mrad sterile ap nce - bey country, in the de- 
ed for pasturage. Wherever ‘sy are nares 38 of vegeta’ and the numerous 
disturbed . oH vicinity of set large om saline efflores sacideie shale covered the 
of buffalo animati this country. be the 
on 
Westward 4 tamil abe: the region is 
- sandy, and apparently sterile ; and the place 
of the grass — the ariemisia = 
other lants, to 
SP whose growt 
and vat fen air of this saan 
rable. 
abundance of the ariemisias. The yg 
everywhere—on the hills, and over the nver 
bottoms, in mete semen wiry clumps ; - 
wherever the beaten track w 
e carts 
w 
ti saturated with 
phor pirits of turpentine which be- 
longs to this plant. This climate has been 
found very favorable to the restoration of 
health, particularly i 
and a the respiration of air so highly 
with aromatic plants may have 
some neetion 
Our dried meat had given out, and we be- 
to bé in want of food; but one of the 
set seer! an antelope this ev ening, which 
relief, a ss it id not go 
ea many hungry m £8 
locke at night, after te march of. twenty 
- mailes, posed en 
grass, 
with a great arom of of pre which fur- 
nished ee tired animals. ‘This 
tim! 
creek is insted, principally with 
diard , with the exception of Deer 
«reek which we had yet re ; 
sinking ; 
wv | they pe haar to oct very much. 
as left, they ren-| cotton-w 
gronnd Such | afterward found to 
ca 
~ was informed ao the ge villages of 
r met witn 
patch of Sines mois ce to keep them from 
urse of a day or two 
found 
e 
none to-day at noon; and, in the course of 
our search on the Platte, came toa os of 
re — Indian 
rat m2 encam s of the cotton- 
ood yet green scutes the ground, which 
ine Indians had ¢ ut do wn to feed their horses 
of the state he country. 
lowed their example, and turned our 
Nee into a grove of young poplars. This 
began to present gin as a very serious evil, 
for on our an —— nde . — gether the 
not our jot 
after we had le t thie ‘place, the 
scouts came pout i Sa n with the alarm of 
Indians. We din immediately towa 
the _ whieh here ci a steep high bank, 
where we formed w 
ed, orward, under cover 
Pe the bank, in the direction by which the 
Indians were ex] interpreter, 
who he) Sas 
pet 
| came in, in 
n about ten , accompanied 
is the | by two Sioux. They lo ‘oked shanies and we 
ing dome ate Plate, in ponerec Se scsersree] 
