nd 
2 ~ 
J hemes 
om shelter we could , where we slept 
soundly, after one zt the most fatiguing days 
I have ever eng 
A 25. Early this morning Lajeu 
nesse was sent to the wreck a op articles 
which had been saved, and a noon we 
The mare ‘hich we had 
ate 
panse of sands, with. some occasional stunted 
rees on the eof te ie it the air of the sea- 
bed of ver being merely a 
succession among which the 
channel was tise peo tan a few —_— 
eep. 
carts sepriaiedty and os oer np snd, 
aoe aes, an obstru way, in 
e shape of eanipieed us biufls th that came 
upon the river, we turned directly into 
no othe 
isinterrin 
dition, and served us well again for some | which had been made byour party when they 
time, but was finally abandoned at a subse- | ascended the river, we ed without ac- 
uent part of the journey. At 10 in the | cident, on the evening of the 12th of Sep- 
mornin 26th we reached C. ember, our old encampment of the 2d of July, 
mp, where we found everything undis- | at the junction of the forks. Our of 
turbed. We — our deposit, ar-| the 1 rk was found undi 
ged our cai nich had been left here on | and proved a seasonable addition to our stock 
= ee a out, and, | Gevlling a few miles in| of provisions. At this place I 
fternoon, encamped for the night at the om her attempt to descend the 
po of aoe “see 
—At midday we halted at the 
place ne we had taken dinner on the 27th | we 
of July. The country which, when we pass- 
ed up, looked as if the hard winter frosts 
over it, had now assumed a ne 
, SO much of ve freshness had 
rnal 
given to it by the laterains. The Platte was 
ingly low—a mere line of wateramong 
hed e fort on 
pe of its single piece, w 
h scattered volleys of our —— 
conesen felt the joy of a home recep 
back to this remote station, 
seemed so far off as we 
whi 
went o 
bade adieu 
The water 
bs capeauaal tn sad pln, ae 
g 
On the parame ge the 3d of September we 
kind friends at fort, 
;| beaten road. 
aa 
Platte by water, and accord 
days in the construction of a bul: 
strong. 
bow, W aacigt feet lon, 
drew with four men about four inches wa’ 
On the morning of the 15th we e embarked i a 
our pari boat, Mr. Pre 
two me We 
for Fe or four miles, and then left her on 
ned entirely ale 
On the 18th we reached Grand Island, 
which is fifty-two miles long, with 
breadth of one mile t 
t 1 ae 
