1844.] 
on the southern exposure, was prettily cover- |; 
— mpment. ‘T'he river was only 
level, and the opposite ridge is continuous, 
affording no streams. 
e had with usa large kettle ; anda ig? 
oe killed here, his — as boiled in 
for several hours, an i passable ou 
for famishe 
ople. 
elow, precipices on the river _— ~ to 
the hei ghts, which we ascended b e 
hig 
spur 9.000 fee My he A Fass 
Proveau, h ry weak, 
scarcely able te ati a to the top. 
Travelling here =e cept in ~ofeaas 
e ravines, Sirti ere Taare stee 
no grass a 
mals depended on finding it to-night. 
were in just such a condition that grass and 
se for the night enabled them to get on 
ing 
It branct 
had a “pee 
le of the oth which is very smoo 
thin, of a chocolate color, contrasting, wel hon 
ith the pale green of the leaves. The da 
was nearly gone ; we had made a hard day's 
march, and fo und no grass 
li, mY - 
without ss where re a6 going, a 
Jacob brou fi k. 
= nig’ ial we a into the steep 
irty feet wide, 
ng the art up 
the stv 2 ilk « met heard a shout from 
Carson, who h few hidoteed 
yards—* Life yet,” said he, as he ca’ 
“life yet; I have "onnd a hill I side sprinkled 
With grass enough for the night.” edr 
enc nped = the place 
enou 
2 
< 
ia) 
and there 
was just 
dark, 
me > sce er tho edge othe e 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
began to tell us where 
147 
ing mentee ‘the two former gave out, and 
the la’ r strayed off into the woods as we © 
readied the c 
ebruary 29. We at shut up in the seni 
row _— oe gave 
ry day ; a 
ae 
th $ ° n 
i extended ahead, and the valley appeared 
s far as ever. he pack horse was Bey nag 
near the camp, but Dero osier did not 
March 
the night, and leaving him to to 
ained here, we jennie Ps over 
mall ‘s 
the oe, got bes yon 
e found the hill side cover- 
ed ( As lightly) with fresh green grass; 
and from this time potion Pig found it al- 
ways improving and abun 
the river hill, 
autiful nal og 
were a foot in 
ea p 
wher some be 
chatate-eclaal shrub, whic 
ty feet 
ayant | along, unbroken by st 
rapidly des ending into thes spring, an 
we ie ie te) owy region far behind ; 
everything is getting n; Cokes 
swarming ; nume gs are creeping out, 
eS a their waive sleep an the 
forest flowers are coming into bloom. Among 
those which a tn — 
day was dodecatheon um. 
We began at s ab- 
Pe me he might have been a fowls. 
s. les Towns, 
cold mountain 
orrent foaming among on 8. We were _ 
ee to see Derosier appear ok the evening. 
og came in, and, ant gp nin mm byte by the A 
ned he had been gone seve hp eg 
t we were still at the camp where he 
ined to see that 
imagine 
though 
had left us 
had t in the mountain, and hunger 
and fatigue, joined to wea of body, and 
fear of perishing in the mountains, had 
crazed him. The ti ere severe 
stout men lost their minds from extremity of 
suffering — when horses di d— and 
mules and , ready to die of starvation, 
were killed for ae Yet there was ne mur- 
manne < or hesita’ 
As O Ganice ieee our encampment. 
he ri Saceeaine terminated in precipices, ° 
. t v ists a 
, after a Shane) march ya 
we encall 
a bench where here there 
