1844. 
a direction a ale -west_of south 5 beyond 
which, they dre 
a mountain; and further | son to rec 
wee tw pie: ; on one of which S48 told 
d. 
s that people like ourselves travelle 
Whether they alluded to the Pet icheauta on 
aS 
po) 
a) 
3 
a 
mS 
oe 
2 
° 
[nal 
® 
m to guide us for a few days on the 
pee, nay they only looked at each athes and 
"The latitude of our encampment, which 
may be conn ered the mouth of the inlet, 
3 39° 51’ ot al our niet g 
—i nis morn. econ 
tinued 
ong mi bez autifal stream 
T 
the s handsomely timbered with 
[large eatton ood and the wa w 
very clear 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
the | whicl 
ra ig i tell. 
de ; | Eve 
We were aaran ee . 
I rode out with Mr. Fitzpatrick ard Car- 
e 
ve 
This stream joined w 
open valley of another to the e bert but 
é€ main water ran, it was im- 
over the 
the cou 
t and aid universal a 
among barbarian 
Examining into the condition of the ani- 
mals wien I returned into the 
ound their feet so m 
rocks, Fo so many of them lame, 
was ently 
cross ‘the rg ai untains. 
piece of iron ta osald fos ok for 
the yhes ais had been converted into a 
and we could make no further use of 
shoes we had remainipg. I therefore 
0 
e 
Boe 2 
pu re. 
) alon, ng the mountains of the t Sierra, 
/ whi right, covered with snow ; 
but Below the Pidg geist ts was mild and 
gee We mber of dams which 
«ted “constructed to catch fish. 
eased ie made about 
mped under some neg 
the rive z ogn where there was tolerably 
wpe he 17.—This mornipg we left the 
river, which here issues fr from the moun 
tura ; and Carson hurried eagerly to search, 
n 
tings, een ] ap: mee i 
should fin d on wa an to 
4 sure ae RR that the water 
0 
ly level country, wi s 
which brought us, after 20 miles journey, 
to another large stream, timber 
cotton-wood, and flowing also out of the 
| mountains, but cuca more directly to the 
eastward. mi 
On the way we surprised a family of 
Indians in the hills; but the man ran up 
the mountain with rapidity ; and the woman 
} 
pen ea va 
strea 
ed with 
HH 
he Sacramento, wherever a prac- 
seable 4 sto isi 
was heard with 
fused new life pe Mc Ot the 
Latitude, by observation, 39° 24’ 16". 
19.—A great number of smokes 
ar 
once & : arance had 
- | spread among these people, sir igno- 
rancé of us. If they knew the whites, 
they would unde =e oe only 
object in coming am as to trade, 
which required uae a friendship. but 
e nothing to trade—consequently, 
hite man ; 
da heavy snow ; but 
ning up the stream, went 
ns was 
tracks of Indians, who 
had descended from the upper waters, 
a oe ay gpmmesba 
trial 
fair’ sm gamc below, the mountains were 
darkened with falling snow, od Sool ae 
|wiling to encounter ‘them, we ay 
to the southward. In that ae 
