_the sno 
power of fire-arms, and thinking them- 
a 
low, crossing the river, go depth, sw. 
current, 
1844.} 
w, seeming ne have no idea of the} 
atid perfectly sate when beyond arm’s 
0 
o-night we did not succeed in Leerins 
This 
the howitzer into ca’ 
most eras day wi Sha d 
through, the steep aa me dens snow 
pe et both men and a 
the 
a 
sha 
‘om 
will account for the absence of Seine te 
along this interval of our 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
Sheight we could 
be low, j el mountain 
cad 
- The Indians immediately made it 
oe that the waters 
ained to boy ndians that we 
anuary 29.—From this 
) ata S onaideratle: distance 
necks, and raised t 
spots in the valley, iia saaiee ted 
that there was not much iW. 
these places we expected 3 fens es 
t; and some time bein g yee” - 
f with 
a few 
ollow, a or! Ss 
Werf ollo wad a trail ddéwn a hallow. where 
the Indians ne descended tek snow pergs 
so nev nea e 
o 
a 
tha 
ground; but this ° . m our d ees 
the easier. r, and, when we reached a little 
affluent to the river at the bottom, s 
ian 
-our motions, an 
first were indisposed to let us approach, 
ging themselves like birds a fallen 
where, 
ran themselve 
log on the hillside yr stigha our heads, 
yt 
safe. Our frie il 
th and, when r h, they 
immediately stretched out to us handfuls 
of pine huts, whic ed an exercise of 
h e w pre 
few m 
ey went 
The 
difficult to ford ; 
ospitality. made th 
ents, vse telling us that their village was a pric fires, in, ge 
on to let their | d 
to show the depth; and sign 
was impossible for us to get thro 
made signs bape rhe tee 
ward, over a pass “the 
ethic h they pointed aks 
at the end of one d 
n 
g ish us a guide. The 
peared to have a confused idea, from re- 
port, of whites who lived on the other side 
he ai d 
weg siemated cab wi spirit of explora- | 
aed nrneite which characterizes that } 
of pine nuts, which 
soppy When roasted, 
The Indians — in during the even- 
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