«“ 
m_ Powers, 0 
ing to. 0 Fitapatriok’s 
, was discharged at this 
incaleulable ¥ 
ef the men belon: 
party s plac 
y. A French engagé, at Lapton’s fort, had 
_ been shot in the back on the 4th o July, m 
gS 
2S 
ct 
oO 
ned permission to pe 
with my party to i neighborhood of Bea 
Ww she expected 
river, where to’ meet wi 
some of their Happier than the 
Jewish widow, she carried with h 0 
children, ag little half-breeds, who added 
much to the liveliness of the cam er 
or ack | y 
o 
oS 
ing men m old associations 
aaadeeireny 
Charles Pi = Preuss, Christopher Carson, Ba- 
sil Lajeu i . Ber- 
e from Kansas landing, by 
c 
the road we travelled, cele it will be ee de 
¥ 
was along th 
lower Kansas river,) was "750 miles. The 
used in referring to St. 
longitu me between that 
the Fontaine-gui-| re 
one FREMONT'S NARRATIVE, 
| ing 0. 
>| running with gr 
[1843 
e| about four miles, we encamped in the even- 
n Thompson’s creek, where we were 
very oak disturbed b by mosquitoes. 
westwa: c 
and, fording the Cache-a-la-Pou 
m the 28th, entered the Black t Bg 
and nooned on this stream am in the mountains 
h and, ascending " i ea TICUS 
er remove. this diff 
culty, and render the road to this point a 
very excellent one. The e evening cl 
in dark with rain, and the mountains looked 
d} glo 
99,—T 
July 29. 
7 in the morning, we travelled until 3 in = 
afternoon along the ri 
ch, for this 
runs directly 
untains, 
by the nature of the 
ind ¥. cross the river eight or nine times, 
t, deep, and rocky fords, the stream 
scanty 
Semerul with a wilderness of flowers, their 
heads 
-| tall spikes sometimes rising above our 
as we rode am a them. fusion of 
blossoms on a white flowering vine, (clema- | 
tts lasranthi,) whisk was abundant along the 
a 
+h in some places a 
granite, w 
to be in a state op Sean ition, making a 
_ . 
stream was wooded with cotton- ; 
wood box-eler, wn cherry, with ipoon 
bushes. After a 
e, for | shat lab rear day, during whik it t had | 
30 | rained in ly, we ae 
a|end of the at the mouth of a small ! 
less liable to dera rangement. : Se in sight of the great ie plains. 
two days, which was allow- It co nued to rain heavily, and at evening 
for ary i id in mists ; but there 
Se ae a ne a a TN 
x: aad AD 
dearer lane ctye oo yee 
