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‘game time that they were in want of all the 
common necessaries of life. Those who 
‘taken a water conveyance at the Nez Percé 
fort continued to arrive safely, with no other 
‘eade mountains —_ reported to have lost a 
number of their animals ; and those who h: 
‘driven their sai. down the Columbia had 
brought them safely in, and found for “ase a 
ready and very profitable market, and w 
already proposing to sete to the States. in 
the spring “ eeotoar upply. 
In of two ‘days our ge “9 
had been eted, and we were re 
out on our i tetarn. It would 
very gratifying to have gone down 
cific, and, solely in the interest oats in the love 
of geo graphy, to to have seen t an on the 
weste 
seas now regularly set 
was filled with fogs and rain, whi ich left no 
\ momical obse 
tions, I was not, for such a reason, justified | r 
make a delay i 
elay in waiting for favorable 
Near sunset of the 10th, cee boats left the 
making only a few | ca 
miles. Our flotilla Sonabted of a Mackinaw | iml 
‘canoes—one 
ee 
party in all of twenty men. 
in 
the river; and a 
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CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
([1843. 
at the lower end of Ca; pear On the 
poe rato said to be a singular hole in 
the mou , from which the Indians s8: 
hve: da poe me wind producing these gales. 
It is called the Devil’s hole ; and the Indians, 
I 
sult of which, being an absolute observation, 
I have udopted for the longitude of the place. 
Novem 2.—The wind eine the night 
had Sacral to so much violence, that the 
broad river this morning res: 
white ; th ves breaking with considera- 
e boa nd th as not dis- 
posed to hazard the stores of our voyage for 
the delay of a day. F r observations 
the day, giving for the 
latitude of the place 45° 33’09''; and the . 
ee obtained from the satellite; | is 122 + 
Now ember 13.—We hada mate 
ble and cold rain; and, late in in 
to be i 
imbe between strata of altered 
conta: ins of veget: ; 
leaves of which indicate that the plants were 
dicotyledonous. n ; of 
of i 
