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‘rest to bee fate, neue them off at speed 
across ee g that they would 
be pursu Tidincis without makin 
home mc = 
face ai ae — to other 
or abo’ 
for rest, they arriba on, ho’ oping to meet the 
Spanish Caravan, when they discovered my 
camp. pag them kindly, taking them 
wn mess, promised them such 
oo Tega might put it in my 
ete 
April 98. —we left the river abruptly, and, 
turning to o the north, regained in a few miles 
>: “ome aa ih had left t ‘ie river sooner 
» an ed our way 
sere a et ¢ Hage of the mountain, through 
a miserable tract of sand and gravel. We 
broad beds ary 
gullies, w e season 0 
melting boat ya thet would be brooks ue dee 
let these, where there was 
wolves, whose keen sense of smell 
th ter under the dry sand. 
They were nice little wells, narrow, and dug 
wee “a down, and we got pleasant water 
out of them > 
The cou n had now assumed the cha- 
racter of an elevated and mountainous de- 
sert; its general poreiews being black, rocky | lite: 
ridges, bald, and destitute of timber, _ 
tween. Where the sides 
: wed with pe’ 
or rolled stones, destructive soft- 
animals, accusto to grassy pl 
of the Sacramento ve A Through these 
iy bikin wobabte ~<g 
ty 
stream, or occurred a ale of water, ee 
furnished camping 
te sea in = Bestel across, snow whe 
on the 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
[1844, 
curred frequently henceforward along our 
road. 
Beyond the first ridge, our in bore a lit- 
tle to the east ot north, towards a gap in a 
higher line * eae ak ins after pete 
ling mae nty-five miles 
2 Tomaso the spring at he 
n left; but, as we expected, 
ief e saiteiadion of the 
syed was a pool; 
hich had ote dag she by esr or trav- 
Its w refresh- 
thoi to us ontins ing sun. 
In the e vhiws, Fuentes sping his horse 
having failed; but Carson and Godey had 
continued the pursuit. 
bserved to-night an occultation of a 
Caneri, at the dark limb of the moon, whic 
gives for the longitude of the place 116° 23' 
28''; the latit on, is 35° +4 
08'’. From Helvetia to this places the 
which appears 
markably well ; rward, to 
the sud of the journey, the few longitudes 
given are absolute, depending upon a subse- 
— occultation and eclipses ofthe satel 
om the afternoon of the next day, a war- 
was heard, su uch as_ Indians make 
*s announced that they had over- 
taken a br as h ‘ 
They info fter Fuentes left 
them, ioe the failure of his horse, 
