had entirely disappeared ; 
Baile that we stl fan with them 
we returned to the Sweet 
“of this 
a i heakataihd five feet in height. A gap was 
left for a gate on the innerside, by which the | grew 
animals were to be secured, 
ed of dried meat for two days, with our little 
stock of coffee and some maccaroni. In ad- 
reg to the barometer and a thermometer, I 
ith m extant and spy-glass, and 
* had of pero re compasses. In sais 
left Bernier, one of my most 
seat worth men, who possessed the most 
t é- 12.—Ealy in the morning we left 
- 
wer ell armed, 
siiahei 
animal ca 
metic 
cups. Every ae eunurn bd 
over his sade, 40 serve fr his body and. the 
instrume 
our en shag a 
ig in our way oh fine streams, 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
and it was nore 
e | manifested by our 
best | us feel as if we 
of 
A 
ewes 
in about two pba Sm err we | Er 
[1s4a. 
the balsam pine, relieved on the border of the 
lake with the light foliage of the aspen. 
"howe 
s y all 
the green of the waters, common to mountel 
lakes of great mone showed that it would be 
impossible to cro m. The surprise 
s when these impas- 
hill, we proceeded to 
dom. the margin to the southern sinubeiiey. 
rrow strip of angular ents of rock 
sometimes afforded a “rough pathway for our 
but heroes we rode along the shelv- 
ing side, occasionally scrambling up, at a 
— risk of tumbling back into the 
ake 
The ome was frequently 60°; the pines 
densely together, and the ground was 
covered with the branches — ome of 
The air w wit 
sae 
of the hunter’s praise, and which now made 
had a been a ing some 
hilarating gas. of this unex- \ 
- | plored forest were a aie = delight the heart 
‘Oa boven tanist. There Was ar 7] 
shea ‘the outlet at 
eon nee some freshly barked willows 
that lay in the — ee that beaver had 
been recently at w 
small brown squires jumping about in the 
of large mallard ducks 
ond Ww ere low, 
ooked like a mimic sea, as the 
waves broke on athe sandy beach in the force 
of a strong breeze. There was 
. 
