, betwee 
and 4 high, ris noes nen 
< eme clouds, tek ‘il day rested upon 
gleamed out in the occa- 
while it rained on 
in the valley below, of which the elovation 
here was about 4,500 feet above the 
The country before us plainly es that 
we were a a’ the ae 
the ground wher ing af. 
forded ved elevated 1 pint nahin of it as yet 
] 
see t distane 
ahead were Sch —_* Seuaen re 
sembling islands, which they were after 
wards found 2. upper plain the 
grass er ; and among 
the shrubs with eens i ie almost exclu- 
ae’ the ~—s 
t,) freque sites ence om 
clusters of several specie 
- bloom 
frequent shrubs. Descending 
of Bear river, we found good grass for 
eé animals, encamped about yards | 
above the mouth of hich here 
pe — without communicating 
aay 
- — armas water remains ations pure 
are only willow shicketestoidig 
por Temp and in the bottoms the abun 
plants are canes, and helianthi, 
the 
our | the Indians, we put to 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
: ee large b 
aie ce , and the 
mom “sce five 
or aa persons “_ a considerable — of 
seaux being too 
bite ITiage 
across. Thinking tut —— 
of t ght reach the ae at the 
lake, I got into the ea with Basil Lajeu- 
| nesse, e n Bear river, intend+ 
cused to one _—— yards 
water so de 
e 5 fee 
ouhas sie were alternately low bottoms 
and willow points, Asay an occasional high 
prairie ; and for five six hours we fol- 
lowed slowly the mating course of the 
river, which crept gene with a sluggish 
current g freque ssn “ava several 
es d, ee g for a con- 
oe distance direc ce a the Same 
t | As were seahing quietly d the 
mi tr ob in 
ows, ver 
gers, wh 
on the shore 
several w raind ct 
of eatchin 
put to the shore near a high 
prairie bank, hauled up me bot and cached 
ndi 
