a el 
( 
3 
h was our composition 
rocession. Scouts 
ahead, and on the flanks; a front and rear 
division; the pack ani 
in a southerly — 
across ia plains to whieh as well as 
the country, so far as Co 
haa and singular cha- 
in the pliancy of its era 
graceful plant. Its le small, cover- 
us substance ; and ony 
ed with a resino! ‘ 
larly when bruised and crushed, exhale 
ut very le and rieshing 
pr This shrub and the snes, with m 
varieties of cactus, make gicrastorialin 
a. in the vegetation es a long distance 
eastw' 
e had see 
ing, which sonsiated psa of eo gine 
mingled 
‘ing in the agers at the foot of the ri 
running in nh ravine, among 
boulders hese night-s rs of 
buckwheat, with their white blossoms around 
. 
3 
By observation, latitude of the camp 
bs 34° 41/ 42"; and longitude 118° 20’ 00'". 
The next da men returned with 
atm 17.—Crossing the ridge by a beau- | 
where several deer | 
of hol! 
ee ee 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
o all}1 
@ pias 
tata, which catactad us into 
nite mar. 
whi blade of 
managed (as the Gequeit? do) to hide 
itself ate the sad 4 the 
San Buenaventura comes in, The 
about 1,200 yards in dinsuetar’, 2 
on the ma ite t 
to encamp at night; and, giving him a 
sent of knives and scarlet ae ny ae 
with the riem: 
a sandy plain 
covered more or less densely with forests of 
yucca. 
Aa ee ving now the snowy ridge on our right, 
we continued our way towards a dark butte, 
in plain, and 
ted out for. a land- \ 
famil liar ; f 
small salt lake in a vallon lying nearly east 
and west, where a trail from 
the mission of ! 
perenne p 
