1844.] 
paises a point of great beauty, 
goes through very etc fates, fo abiae cha- 
racter owe ing those of Columbia. 
yo e again descended to the bottoms, 
where we ef an Indian ae nerremnt 
of two or three huts; me u 
them vidal and the eth vee evidently 
The hu and slight, 
or s 
re filled with rfl long a 
ready as me: eetiaal ed, and the huts were’ 
several neatly made Daiots containing quan- 
tities of the _ 
sweet and a 
pene se 1 of our oF shins, a ‘handhercheh and 
tticles, in exchange. Th 
we discovered — e Indians na hill « phinte 
ge no farther, but return to this camp, where 
nh of provisions was made for him 
tinuing the next day down ae RMA : 
Cont 
we discovered three mae in 
urrounded t fore hey" cou 
: Caen ce, only ina Aiea 
‘soak? 
and offering us il b baskets of ‘the plant, 
Which they signified to us was good to eat, 
also that 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
one knowin, 
149 
—one of the squaws pulling several tufts, 
a —s. it with apparent relish. SL 
ur surprise, she poin 
ies could not well understand ‘his she 
meant, except, perhaps, that — was good 
for “oa ve was | for the other. 
congng in the evel on the shore » 
r, at a place where the ee. 
3 
® 
ima 
Ey 
a 
2 
ten bushels. Towards evening 
nothing of Derosier. 
he was los t, that I was determined to k 
if 
ed drift “nas and m 
rock more 
serious, and he encamped again alone, think- 
ing that we ttiadt have tak other 
course. To go back cae have been mad- 
ness in Ag weak and starved condition, and 
onward to : 
pleasa 
t | a relief which othe a voyageur could appre- 
ciate. He tried the dried leaves of the live 
t ks were 
4th he made seven or ei 
along 
the river, Sritilg’s as much 
