1844.] 
ject, when a movement among the horses 
Indians 
discovered them to the AB. ype 
into the 
war shout, raed instantly cha: 
the 
cam) of number whic 
four | oath imply. The Indians re- 
ceiv. em with a t of arro 
stea Tw 
by stretched on the ground, fatally pierced | « 
ullets; the rest fled, except a lad that 
ptared scalps of the fallen 
were instantly stri off; but in the p 
, one of them, who had two balls through 
in oe Lad i ead, . uttering a 
hi aig ack rom his 
mother, stp a and looked b: m th 
m ae she was climbing, threatening 
ont ik rightful spectacle ap- 
alled the sto of our men; but they 
what baraanlty reauied, and quickly ter- 
minated the nies e gory savage 
israel eee 
proper place a arenes and for 
celebration of sas rs 0 ; 
desert would delight i ie bitte ge of the best 
had be lled, s and cut up ; 
make a at och other af of horses than t to Haghee 
ing 
nd st wing the pos beefs cal ‘eet bas- 
kets, pel, Fo fif ‘pairs of oer 
sins, indicated the serous or expec 
of a ener ey re. os the 
boy, who had given strong evidence of the 
pea or something else, of the savage 
character, in commencing hig breakfast upon 
a horse’s head as s nyiathn foun gry As 
not to be killed, but only tied as < oe 
object accomplished, our men gathered 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
up all th 
returned upon their rtrail,and eke us satont 
ey | 
camp in the afternoon of the same da. 
about 100 miles in the itil and 
return,andall inthirty hours. The time, place, 
object, and numbers, co s bs ane t 
tion of Carson and Godey may be considered 
among the boldest and most disinte 
which the annals of western adventure, so 
full of « deeds, can 
in a savage desert, pursue 
unknown body of Indians into the 
an instant—and for what? To 
Pa robbers of the i got and to a 
wrongs of Mexicans wi hom they” 
«163 
ag I repeat : i was Conn apd ONeY 
o did this—the forme 
American, born 
Me the Sg, degra ty of Winesait the lat- 
, born in St. uis—and 
ay ald to weleth enterprise from early 
By the information of Fuentes, we 
now to make a long stretch of forty or ity 
e hada 
moonshiny night ; and, sraveling directly 
wards the north star, eae now 
across an open plain bet antain 
on the left 
TA 
'"y ceuMe 
now rs the 
discharge of a, waters of this basin (when 
it collected an i 
in a bein genes 
bed was overgrown shrul 
veral pa before Pd it brought us to the 
pi ype of a cafion, where we fou nd water, 
and e 
camped. word cafon i 
by the ? Spaniards to ignify a defile or gorge 
in a creek or pi nr high rocks 
in close, e a narrow fe 2 usually 
difficult, and often impossible to 
the 
ween 
being broken, ery r 
the informati 
ccceneeliaeenen ee 
