ndians, pope — Taos, 
at place, in whieh 
ill- 
property en des was Mr. 
bien, father-in-law of Maxwell, from ae about sunset, and w 
had expected to obtain supplies, and pe 
had — obliged to make his escape t 
Santa 
By t thie position 0: € sllaixe; our ne 
sion of obtaining supplies from Taos 
cut off. I had here the satisfaction to poi 
our good buffalo hunter of 1842, Christo- 
pher Carson, whose services I T eons red 
myself fortunate to secure again as 
reinforcement of mules was Peettubely ne- 
cessa 
ee 
oe 
immediat 
> country, and meet wi hat 
mals he should - able to obtain at St. 
t admitted into the party 
Charles Towns, a aes of St 
serviceable man, with many of the qualities | 
of a good geur. According to our 
servations, the latitude of the mouth of th 
river is 23”; its longitude 104° 58’ 
ig and its elevation above the sea 4,880 
2 
On.the ppomning of the 16th, the time for 
Maxwell’s arrival having expired, we re- 
sumed our jones g for him a note, 
1 which it t I would wait for 
at St. Vrain’s fort vatil the morning of 
the 26th, in joe —— that he should suc- 
ceed in his Our dire 
up the Boiling ' te river, it t being my in- 
tention to visit the celebrated bie from 
ay the river takes its name, and whieh 
are on its upper waters, at the foot of Pike’s 
peak. Our animals fared we we 
Were on this stream, there being ahaal 
ag ce of préle. 
® 
abundant, and among the ea which ¢ cov- 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE: 
e — weret bu als 
ction was | ated immediat 
63 
er the mountains, began to roll down¢heir 
ane and a storm so violent burst upon 
however, to ride along up the river until 
as beginning to be doubt- 
hog ate _ upon a huge white cadens at 
which the river, already become 
a mint ee Pp along, broken - a small 
fall. A deer which been drinking at 
the spring w ed by my approach, 
and, springing across the river, bounded off 
up the mountain. In the upper part of the 
rock, which had apparently been formed by 
deposition was a white basin, over- 
g by eurrant bushes, in which the cold , 
up, kept in constant 
motion by the escaping gas, and overflow- 
ing the rock, ‘hick it had a were entirely - 
naa with a smooth crust of glistening 
white. I had all day refrained from drink- 
ing, reserving myself for the spring; and 
Ag is re wet than the 
rain al e, I lay down by 
y made 
the side of the bain, and drank he artily of 
the delightful water. The g is situ- 
ely e the foot af lofty geese 
pene beautiful liy timbere weep 
closely round, sag up the little valley 
in a kind of co it was begi 
grow dark, I sare quickly down the river, 
on which I found the camp a a few 
ped immediately Pn 1 
: thaee a very pleasant 
i oo side of the river is another locality 
oe soinge, which are "entirely of the same 
The water has a very agreeable 
taste, ro, whi Mr. Preuss found very much 
f the famous Selter springs: 
Wao @ ¥CLy 
ef chenopodiaceous shrubs, four to six feet 
1 
On the afternoon of the 17th we entered | is 
among the broken ri at the foot oe 
mountains, 
— the river made several 
the camp to follow slowly, | 
og neha search of alysis of an 
megan pf a country 
mous for wine and mineral waters 5 aid it 
inerastation ak the wa- 
ape of wood ing om 
had covered a 
rock : 
age poorte 
