) evening clear and | calm, 
1843,] 
and on = seers mrs ws smd 
the thered 
arest point to 
ake where a — camp could be 
found, we ction our course to one of 
groves, re ith handsome en- 
ee some cumuli. 
ber '7.—TI calm and 
clear, _ a temperature at sunrise ser 399.5. 
The day rie ei in active preparation for 
our intended on the lake. On the 
of the sectanin a favorable spot was se- 
lected: - a grove, and, felling the timber, we 
made ng coral, or horse pen, for 
shined and ~ little ‘fort for a , who 
were bably in 
the country of ‘the — ieddinclad ys none 
reside upon the la The India-rubber boat 
was repaired with feepured cloth and gum, 
ie filled with air, in readiness for the ail 
The provisions — Carson had brought 
with him being xhausted, 
pews reduced to a st deaieg of —_ I 
—— to retain with me only a 
men for the exccation of 
idan and ga a were 
ache back to Fort Hall, und rede 
of Frangois Lajeunesse. 
y 
ies 
¢wo, reaching the fort about a week after- 
in of themselves, 
and the others were brought in by Indians | 
who had picked them up on Snake river, 
about sixty miles below the fort, travelling 
ong the emigrant road in full march 
the er Columbia. The leader of this 
and our | find 
undefined 
| generally associated. 
antes first ever at~ 
ennai this interior sea; and 
with Derosier, Jacob (the colored man), 
eo eee eee We: ~ 
were favored with most = weather. 
Tonight there was a lant sunset of 
den which left the 
range green, 
western aky clear and beautifully pure; but — 
— in the a made me lose an occulta- 
mmer frogs were i 
soma us, aad the exaning. was very 
pone emperature of 600—a ni 
a m For our 
we ieadiigiiia yampah, the most agreea ably flavored _ 
of the roots, seasoned by a small rat duck, 
which had come in the way of Jacob's rifle. 
Around our fire 
on : 
we should find every ee of ge islands 
a tang sass of tre shru y 
teeming with game of every description that 
r a 
Neither, in our discussions, 
and other mysterious en, 
h Indian hunter’s stories 
to this unexplored lake. The men had dis- 
ered that, instead of being strongly 
(like that of the preceding year, which had 
so triumph e the cations of p- 
se- | per Great t Platte), so — boat was — 
— together in a very insecure mi 
e maker hav ving con ween so little time 
cons that he i to 
before , Was a cer 
ee ee pa SON se aR 
Cl 4 
September 8.—A calm, clear day, with a 
ri i - In view of our 
