1842.] 
—— and those whom we had 
little or no grass to be fou ere 
been no age = innumerable — of 
pee the The 
umerous since leaving 
‘ort Laramie "that the ro nd ed 
with them; and in oe a little mov 
nes aa ee our This was ing 
No grass, o—food for ws 
ther: horse nor man. I gave them 
plugs of tobacco, and they went off, aia 
rently — satisfied to be clear of us; for 
my me upon sae very lovi 
ly, and they glanced suspiciously at our war- 
a reparations, and the litle ring 
hich surrounded them were evi- 
humor, and shot one of their | visi 
dis- | i 
dentlyiin a bad 
horses when they had left us a short 
We continued our march, and, after a 
of rifles’ 
meat, to 
a tg tended duri 
ad | object of 
a3 
to the drying o: which the guard ate 
uring the pagar am people had 
recovered their gaiety, and the busy figures 
pti intended them er for mountain 
, | had used them as seldom as pos- 
sibte’ taking them always dow down at night, 
and on the occurren: in order to 
a 
a construction. This I determin- 
to preserve, if posible The latitude is 
42° 51' 35’, and by a mean of 
from chronometer lunar distances, the 
—_ longitude of shies camp is 105° 50¢ 
26.—Early this morning we were 
i We had a stock of pro- 
journey of about twenty-one miles, encam te r 
on the Platte. During the day, I had occa-| in any way possible. In the m buf- 
sionally remarked among the hills the psora- ome were a In six miles from our 
esculenta, the bread of the I mpment (which, by eat of distinction, 
The Sioux use this root very eget "oy? and | we shail se gees Meat we crosseq 
I have frequently met with it amo em, han Fourche 
cut into thin ‘slices and dried he Boisée. it is “aa iGedorels and, among the 
of the evening we were visited by six in bloom on its banks, I remarked 
Indians, who told us that a large party was | several aséers. , 
encam . miles above. Astronomi Five miles — we made our noon halt 
cal observations placed us in ‘longitude 104° on the banks of spay ar seria the shade of 
59° 59”, nd latitude 42° 39° 25”. some cotton oma The ere here, as 
We made 
and encamped on sei 
the next day hace phe te miles, 
the hun! 
iéstiy after we had encamped with three 
fine cows. The t was fine, and obser- 
gave for the latitude of the camp, 
42° 47! 40", 
25.—We made but thirteen miles 
bank of the 
sales 
the mo 
. | the stream a Sone F458 of 106° 08’ 24'’, and 
itude 42° 52 
ae 
generally now a the seats thi 
ns de beuf of the coun- 
inds—one 
berry s \ entia 
par the other a cep a 
which the Tartars are said to make a 
nomical observations gave for 
24! 
aa as — of mention oc 
day ; we travelled later than 
“i. 
