fined to the n the tern half, |'ter at sunrise at 46°. There were no cloude: 
where the soil is a pag ea wentaliag along the mountains, and the morning sun 
mould, retentive of rain = on sture, it is} showed very clearly their rugged charac- 
of vigorous differ ent 
kinds ; and | ughout the veep half it journey very early down 
consists en fealy of various rng eng of cot- 
ton-wood, which deserves c the 
tree of the desert—gro wy i 
xistence of water, and furnishing tothe | the road was 
his animals. A 
the e 
Sovalics fuel, and food for 
We resumed our 
the “ihe flowing a an extremely good lodge 
» which i — by the head of this ‘ined 
from the bayou Salade, a — oe eer 
valley onto g Pike $ peak. on 
sandy and eat, vad the 
We halted t 
dd | river well timbered. noon 
to this, the rn border of the plain | under the shade of some fine ] saute 
is oceupied by the Sioux, Arapaho, and | woods, our animals luxuriating on rushes, 
Cheyenne nations, — Pawnees and | (eguisetum hyemale,) which, along this riv- 
other half-civili its eastern | er, were remarkably abundant. A vari 
: for whom the saineruudiae country | of cactus made its — e, and amo: 
is a war-ground, you will have a tolerably | several strange plan = a and 
idea of the appearance and condition | beautiful clusters of a ne oe i 
eorrect 
f the 
ively, from experiments on myse 
that their illness was caused by the eee 
of the buffalo bull. 
of the ridge, near the 
pe 
atne-qui-bouit (or Boiling 
(or 
pgs river, — it was 50 feet wide, 
‘current, I afterwards fo 
4 
cold. a 
rs gaa of gilia, with a slender | c 
characteristic ; and, in 
e|I had n 
sepsnmas 
several ple Bn forts, which | Arkansas 
, | desulto 
a of the y called the 
a Spanioh Yates he Maxweh } bed no knowl- 
the — of their being i 
crossed the 
x | was very deubetal ; but I 
eleva- | 
rabilis ni 0 with a soee ome 0 conan 2 
m were several 
ticut fen: a portion of Wyeth’s party, ea 
e year before, and others were 
men fom the western states: 
Continuing down the river, we 
at Sa on the 14th at its mouth, on the 
river. A short = above 
our encampment, on the left bank of the 
Arkansas, is a pueblo, (as the Mexicans call 
|their civilize es,) where 2 
umber of had married 
n| Spanish women in the valley of Taos, had 
collected together, 
* occupied themselves 
in farming, earryi 
ng on at the same time a 
ry Indian trade. 
earned here 
y ag gs Pevicery 
for ie rning va ts 9th, but 
that age would probly fal in fall me the hands. 
in oer when he 
of escape 
| not entertain 
much apprehension or his ie having great 
confidence in courage. 
was further jaSormed Utd Bona 
»- | popular tumult among the ; uebil 
