1843.] 
feet square, which we purchased to hos on 
b 
i 
the snow under our blankets, and to 
table cloths. 
Numbers o lar-loo! dogs, re- 
Ts; he 
northward, pas which present no 
other obstacle than in the almost impene 
trable fores 29a ke any Indians we had 
eviously seen, these wore shells in their 
om = ow our camp, after re 
r two, acco ompanied 
our siitenln ome acquaintance 
with ss lobeling, we italien here for the 
the da yo 
‘par = found in 
timbered a repr sno si moun 
‘fertility characterizes i 
heads of e rivers, and en the line of ‘in- 
military oc- 
lamath lake, the further continua- 
tion of our voyage assumed a character of 
‘discovery sy pom mace —— — the 
‘Thdians he could obtain 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
a ily, as 
t 
er to reer a ite the strength of 
o 
ht | unexpected arr arrival sede Viemath chief, 
He seemed to 
193 
sheltered me rigors of winter and from 
inhospitable desert. The guides who 
had conducted us thus far o: 
ains across 
would woreda us, and the pts of his | fam- 
asons for refusin 
B 
S 
dians south of the Columbia, the camp was 
kept constantly on its gua I was not 
-unmindful of the disasters whieh Smith and 
try, an refore was 
- | guarding eas treachery and violenc 
Accordin the best ieforcistion T had 
been - ab veny ti) ‘tain from t lans, 
few days’ travelling mie should reach ano- 
ther large water, bly a lake, which 
he 
a ssed the lake 
nearly set iene: where it has the least 
extension—the bre = - of the arm 
here only about a mile and a half. There 
ice, with but little grass, for 
f. 
The morning 
very unpleasant, snow coat at iaecivade' in 
large flakes, and the sky dark: In about 
two hours we succeeded in a ting the ani- 
mals over travelling anot ther 
g 
who had acco: 
their rillage a 
gay the pines here I noticed some five 
r six feet in diame! 
"December 13. The night has been cold ; 
the peaks around the lake gleam out bright- 
sun, and- 
the thermom- 
6 era a small affluent to the lake, 
immediately entered an open pine forest 
on the mountain. The way he: me- 
