the meat cut n slices to be dried; 
and all were busily occ sem ns mp | 
was thrown into a sudden tumult, by a 
om t 70 mounted Indians, over 
d 
himself in his stirrups to look over the hill, 
a moment before he made charge ; and 
ceceeded in turning the nto the camp, 
the Indians charged 
occupied r people, and 
pes = a sudden ah, with they made 
selves 
effective 
tee, in such a co 
in 
e only at the a of the atta 
—an excuse which pol 
them from a howitzer |} 
ose Vosld undoubtedly have been | in 
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ighbo of our uncertain visiters. 
lat noon the thermometer was at eae 
sunset 70°, and the e ere clear 
tion above the sea 6,820 f pies “41° 
pretty si stream of c 
en banks Piboked, refreshing am 
e 
ian rine 
vorable fies int the Bras cer- 
aly saved a horses, “vt probably our- 
tag gah marauding intentions. 
n a war pa and had 
been Paeaied, rand were oasadents in the 
state of mind which aggravates their innate 
thirst for ener an 2; by od. Their excuse, 
was taken in good part, and the 
neces sof fiendehip intere 
rovisions pps 
customary presents, they look 
for even from waders, Ais Beet oper from 
government authoriti 
They were fereraing 1 from an expedition 
he S| Indians, one of whose 
ae 
o 
village su d, ridger’s 
fort, on Ham’s fork pt eibseca are (in the 
absence o en 
engaged in 
an antelope Feat aie ‘aneopedel in 
and, in the running fight 
had lost salad goes 
a number manaied, who 
e slow! 
early ail the We horses" Spey in had brovght off 
os Pages of the whites at 
€ nearly 
ral | siderable 
day there 
side of the South Pass 
up into rugged and rocky hills of a dry and 
barren nature, it has 
mou 
tainous chara eter the ams which 
occasionally occur belonging neither to the 
Platte nor the Soleuslies “es lounge them- 
selves either in in small lakes 
From an eminence, a oon, a 
mountainous range became visible in the 
north, in which were re i some 
rocky longing to the range of te, 
weet Water valley; and, determining to 
abandon any further attempt e 
throngh this almost impraet ; 
we arma ee course direct 
a Bean) 
x she gun-carriage was. 
beckon during the neous a: a con- 
delay ; and it was late in an un- 
pleasant evening lana we poetic ve in 
finding a very poor encampm: where 
;| there was a little water in a deep trench of 
creek, and some scant) ta 
shrubs. All game here 
consisted in 
ew straggling buffalo bulls, aed during the, 
been but very little grass, 
except in some gree where it had. 
ng bray around springs or shallow i 
an, Sty miles of the Sweet Watarel thes 
anged into a vast saline plain, 
evel, 
