a ten moved dei the alley 
and > 
sie Columbia, on both sides of the river 
ing falls. Below this 
i numbers 
Savcuey vs 
diminish very rapidly, and continue 
crease until 1838 or 1840, when, with the 
country we just desc - en 
tirely aban e Pa- 
at. 
the habit of finding their buffalo o 
heads of S: mon river, and other tent of 
of ee ~ seemgp or the plains of the Yellow- 
pe Sones 
ta enue of our journey it will be re- 
Bint “that the buffalo have not so Se atk 
aband e waters of the n the 
ocky-mountain ce south of se Sw eet 
Water, as in the oothieey Wor f the oo 
ass. This partial distribution can onl 
accounted for in the great nieestin ‘beauty 
arks 
been one of fa eerste haunts, 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
a we 
[1s43.. 
dians, more particu larly those low down up- 
on Lewis cuietah oe en 
erevenal vs to trappers teh the 
great kindne ess oa oe freduenty 
|) wt Mage cpr we to them, in driving: the 
n the Co 
aaity abundance of the buf 
the Rocky m 
di seinutieny 
° 
rom an 
Rocky mountain ages journeying by the 
most direct route the Missouri river ; 
t|and, during the ha ri distance, 
would be alw ays among noe bands of vm 
falo, which would never be of his view 
until he arrived ee within sight of the 
abodes of civilizatio 
t this time, t are ffalo occupy but a 
very limited space, % peieipally along the 
0 a co 
between the Platte sas rivers, 
nd along the gente ‘eontie of ae Mex- 
ico as far south a 
The te satemndnt which I owe to 
oe f Mr. Sa nf 
oa traders, oe 
u y years pas 
and from that ~tirrely ‘slo! the greater met 
tion of the ane and oe furs were taken 
aa ness rd, a partner in 
Am oer Company, will further 
ns ees “this. subject, by extensive now 
ledge acquired during several years of travel 
through oa region inhabite d by the buffalo; 
ve The tal amount of robes sms 
traded a aecnil and others t be 
although always the most dangerous as s well | will ni 
as the most ble eet ground. ound to differ much from the following 
In that region lying ween the Green| statent 
poder Noto, am rose - an Fur Company, 70 008 
: aes: 
yah, White, ; ond whee ‘whi Hudson's Bay Srp ae - + 10,000 , 
are the waters of the Colorado—the buffalo| All other companies, 10,000 
‘so far to the westw 
they did on the waters of the Columbia; and —— atotalof . . . 90,000 
only in one or two instances have they been erage annual return tie the last 
n escend as far west as the mouth eight i iin years. 
of White river. In travelling through t “In the northwest, the Hudson’s Bay 
country west of the Rocky mo ns, ob- | Company purchase from the Indians but a 
servation readily led me to the oe ion a rege: ounbenciaiiel no me a 
that the buffalo had, for tl o which the cost 
ed that range to the waters of the Pacific near iy pei the produce or _ furs; ail 
a fe’ ~ is only within a very recent period that 
they have receiv in trade ; 
and out of the great number of buffalo an- 
nually killed throughout the extensive re- 
gions inhabited by the Camanches and other 
kind. tribes, no robes w er are fur- 
for trade. Durin our months 
of the year, (from November until March,) 
the skins are good for dressing; those ob- 
‘tained in the remaining eight months being 
| ess to traders ; and the hides of bulls 
