ieee 
aad 
128 
the et built of sage, which 
coved re <bimn deserted at the 
se 
ling up th We had come upon them 
som 
so faddeny that they had been well-nigh 
A 
surprised in their lodges. sage fire was 
burning in the pete ; a few baskets made | w 
Mice. ressed, t 
ildren had arevedd behind 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
h vanced ; and to 
a sage bush 
(1843. 
this had appeared to be only a ridge of low 
broadening into little — — be- 
coming the as we ad- 
near the lodge, and when Carson accident- | low re we found 
ally stumbled upon her, she immediately | camp, with water and excellent and abun-) 
- dant grass. The which was as eovered| 
and we aaa! in vain oe pide ra seas 
munication with the me y dint 
presents, and friendly demonstrations, ke 
was brought to calmne e found 
that they belonged to the Snake nation, 
- cee the language of that people. | tan 
ight or ten appeared to live together, 
er the same little shelter; and t 
ed to have no ot ist 
» and 
The da 
aslight dividing ground we encamped on 
the shelte: of a hill, where there 
was good buneh grass, havi tnade: & 
sev 
, threatening snow ; “but the large 
pen e bright fires 
at4 o'clock it 
took our way across a alas thickly cover- 
ed with snow, towards a range of hills i 
29.—The morning mild, and 
commenced snowing. W. 
‘J 
for a few hours in 
. | tion, it entered a cation where we could not 
s. stream, we searched a 
andl 
and t 
ver tetambee character in its vegetation,| 
f | being or ani red with good 
— a 
ight ¥ cold. Ab 
the valley fom om — a2 
ce below the the 
where a considerable coin “of indiseie “had 
sed on horseback, who had vere out 
to the Teh, appeccutly with the view 
crossing the mountains to the eastward. ° 
December 30.—A fier fo lowing the stream 
ollow; but dete the 
a passage below, where 
could regain it, and entered a regular 
The water had now more 
several 
es of willows, and we 
began to feel pd out of all difficulty: ty | 
m Our position, it was reasonable to ¢ 
clude that 6 stream would find its ontlet 
in Mary’ 
ains showed rs opal atu 
was 
up in 
Strip 0; of grass ainda _ feet the 
walls of bare rock on either hand, and =a 
—AVfter an hour's no 
tere opened out, and before 
