ame ee 
tc 
| beautiful. 
1844.] 
mica. This be only a stratified lava. 
On issuing an th 
igre’ : ibut 
t stream, - which th 
ass. It was covered wih such thick 
so! with pick- |r 
for the anim ake to drink. 
he Lanks are “ight wooded with willow, 
and on the u ttoms are sage a and Fre- 
ae with ephe ine rey sits which be- 
cur more frequently. 
sin, ig encamped o 
to 
the las rad 
travelling more agreeab 
) 
inne 
morning was cold and 
bright, and as the sun ah et 
CAPT. FREMONT'S NARRATIVE. 
e gap into a wide valley, or rather | and from 
enle could not even 
red to have no 
this the a 
ridge _— another, presenting a rude oe 
rocky outline. we descended range 
the rally : a now impeded us but. litle : 
whee we peer the foot 
» and 
about a foot deep « on the 
A part 
Calic 
| down from the mountains to trade pine nuts, 
of 
ae tenn 
which each one carried a e bag. 
These ere now to ie me staple of the 
country ; whenever we ndian, 
by fiend. salutation sheuteeed in alter 
and to trade : their only 
— Say rea a comfortable camp, where there | 
dry willows ‘abundant, a 
medicine 
any drink (except coffee) more agreeable, 
ws. oT this j ina cold night after a on td day’s 
rch. Mr. 
ether the 
neighboring bands were at war w fa ibd nectar vibe poss sessed So exquisite a 
other ; and we ha me difficulty in pre-| flavor. All felt it to be a-reviving cordial. 
vailing on our ar to ae pany us on e next score: sun had not 
this ay: 's journey, being at war with the | yet risen over the mountains, the ther - 
people on the other side of a large snowy | eter elow zero ; e sky 
in oly whi us. Fish re pure, and the weather changed 
The general level of ‘the seed ae. rapidly into a pleas of summer. I 
ed to x! Et tin g higher, and we were gradu- | remained encamped, in order to examine the 
ally entering the heart of the eugtaisa. country, fin allow the animals a day of rest, 
all ma bdiaita or we ascend- | the rt ng good and shina under 
Reso pected by 
ed a lon ridge and reached a pure spring 
at the edge of the timber, where the In- 
dians had Peivlasd and killed an antelope, 
and where the e greater part of them left us. 
the sno 
nd ‘though at war anon ach other, vals 
ll confided i 
tain appearin 
The timber 
nes, (pinus m 
nut | 
- nophyllus,) which here are of larger wie 
anks to t to the combined | a 
Lael 
of the ¢ 
us; buy 2 8 
‘ar be u , this 
was the pass which the y had widiedted, and, 
12 to 15 inches in diameter; heaps of _ 
lying on the ground, whe ere the Indian in company with tag to-day I set out to 
have gathered the seeds. "| explore. it. Entering the range, we con- 
_ The snow deepened as we ad-|tinued in a northwesterly direction up the 
vanced. Our guides wore out their mocca-| valley, whi to the right. It 
sins ; Erbe tan anes a horse, | was a pretty, open 
n bottom, 
we enjoyed the unusual sight of an Indian] lofty mountains, which supplied frequent 
