1843.] 
istence of which I wished to agneacns and 
which I assumed as marks, ing 
points, on the projected sad of an ord The 
first of these points was the Tlamath lake, 
on the table-land tesla the head of Fall 
river, which comes to the Columbia, and the 
ramento, w which goes to ay of San 
ages 0; and from which Jake a river of 
often calle 
5 
a 
Ss 
eo. B 
ir) 
a 
° 
| 
ot 
of 
reported lake called Mary’s, at 
s’ journey in the Great Basin; and 
ane still on southeast, to the reputed Bue- 
naventura river, which ad a place 
60 many maps, and countenanced the belief 
of the existence ofa a grea 
gr to the bay of San 
e Buenaventura the 
in that section 
m 
next point was phidek to 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
n directionss-anee-w 
- — to this, I had purehased a 
T 
in | In 
1 
plete execution of this plan, after ha 
i pon it, a’ and bog 
along the western base of the 
da; where, indeed, a new and eo field of. 
tplpation opened itself before For 
the present, we must follow the sniedins; 
which will first lead us sonth along the val- 
ley of Fall isa srs the eastern base of the. 
Cascade range e Tlamath lake, from 
which, or its m sain, or rivers go in three 
o the ocean; another’ 
north, 7 the Columbias the third south, to 
Californ 
_For she support of the party, I had pro- 
m 
principally of flour, _ and tallo’ 
latter being used in cooking; and, in addi- 
at the 
some California cattle, which were to 
faaed on the hoof. We had 
a _ was to be substit ead - 
t 
porous tain 
when there 
r. Fitapatrick, ith Mr. Talbot and the 
remand f the 
oes on the 21st; 
ne o 
he mar 
and i 
{the subject of reports in relation to lakes, | Indians in ~ neighborhood ; and t 
y , deserts, and savages above the | went along for company. In order to ena- 
- Condition of mere wild animals, which in-| ble us to obtain horses, pate 
_ flame ire to know wha terra in-| sengets to the various Indian villages in the 
x _—_ really amine eighborhood, in orming them that we were 
it was a se enterprise, at the com- | desirous to — = appointing aay 
mencement of winter, to undertake the tra- | for s : to bring i eee? 
ch a party ae made, in wees al time, sé eral 
consisting only of twenty-five persons, and | excursions in the yicinity. me Perkins 
they of many nations—Ameri French, veiiki d with Mr. ae and myself to the 
e miles 
with the sextant, 
com-! from which they could be seen. 
