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b hte 
if killed : ie iis me 
the opposite side (a Mr. gore Pog ry 
the river ; and in a few 
f 
met, 2 “a _ below a fake of the Rio 
nos; an e forlorn a ved 
well be i imagin y wi sori 
each man, weak and emaciated, leading a 
horse or mule as k ted as 
selves. They had experienced great 
dealin in deseenilng a mountains, made 
a ting snows, and 
‘ell. over precipioes, and were 
lost te gore 
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they c pos ong t 
with the | hits which we ed collected ‘ines 
leaving Fort Hall, along a line of 2,000 
crossing 
ieedc, only ae oe reached the val- 
the 
ley of the Sacramen y only in a 
conon to be led along. Mr. *Pitapatrick 
his party, travelli ling more slowly, had 
Tibet able to seks some little exertion “f 
hunting, and had kill 
and unwhole 
tion of life compelled th 
A piel encamped as 
a are of good beef, ipxeullete ‘tee ri 
and delicious salmon, which I had brou ught 
ir first relief from the suffer- 
their first int 
bas wee as 8 scarcity hi 
The next next day, March 8th, we 
at the junction of the two rivers, the Sacra- 
mento and ricanos ; and thus fou e 
whole party in the beautiful waney of the 
ae ae was a a compe ad for 
camp ; other things, was 
Within reach of dive col ie necessary to make 
which we shoul on 
y home, from eee we were 
‘than we were fou 
from the Dalles of the Colum- 
homeward 
encamped | te 
‘our months | the Rio de 
1839, and formed the first settlement irr 
5 e hes ‘his 
wheat fields; the raking’ of the ranted 
bricks, of which his fort is cons nstructe 
iH 
lly in shi 
rticles of clothing. In 
analy plication to the chief 
Bini. k ber really obtains as many 
be girls as he any use for. 
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asio “act of some 
piste, ns ry understood t rottheas 
plaint of the settlers in this > fertile valley, as 
it sometimes renders the crops uncertain. 
ter was about making arrangements 
to i — nds a mesns'o of the Rio de 
los A d this year sown, 
and altogether by indian labor, three hun- 
dred fa 
A fe i aan "the neighboring Rus- 
sian exablishie nt of being about to 
withdraw from the country, sold to him a 
Nie ze pat of stock, seer? agricultural 
and other stores, with a number of pieces 
of artillery and ther silt of war; for 
ie , a regular yearly payaciia is made in 
rt is a quadrangular adobe strue- 
