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Passing through th entered 
dicgher ecity init through wiiiel the dry 
stream northwesterly 
course, in bideh: direction coped & high 
snowy mountain. 
We travelled ppg a barren a 
heavy Bie 
where a hs owing 
the , sand, ride 26 ¢ =n 
mniles, a abe pase) “of salt an nd bit- 
of plants, con- 
sisting of a remarkable new genus of cruci- 
Gradually ascending, the ravine opene 
ord a — seach ae at the foot of the 
tain, ngs of excellent shad 
ves td the 
d 
seen tiie we struck the aa trail. The 
ir encampment early, we tra 
part of the desert, the most sterile pay repul- | i 
that we had yet seen. Its prominent 
and dry; 
shrubs— 
he grassy spot, w 
ani 
its springs and willow ero which cont 
tutes a camping place in the desert, an 
, ae the Archilette. The i gal silence o 
: place w was ominous; ani oping ra- 
ae up, we found only the corpses of the 
Giacome, who was a rge and 
ing r wa ying in one of the willow 
CAPT. FREMONT'’S NARRATIVE. 
strong | a 
[1844 
bgt was cee with joy at seeing Pablo: 
hild, was — with grief; and 
fille the a with lam ons for se per 
and nag i pails J—w 
his nt cry. When we ‘beheld this 
che sight, and pitared to a the 
ate of the two “stirs th rie 
ai thiob tiie: all compune- 
tion oe the salpdalv Indian oem and 
we re oe that Carson and cee had cate 
able so tefl a lesson to 
Am rabs. ie in wait to bandos 
and plunder the innocent travel # 
all too much affected by the sad 
feelings eee the lace 5 yin to remain 
sary m 
eae ‘obli iged to pail Y dhers 
ni 
ae 
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April e continued our pitty over 
a district slaitae to ee f the day before. 
rom s which ~was the 
pring, we en pees basin of the sa 
character, surrounded everywhere by moun- 
tains, for stretche high range, 
us 
ae still higher _ ee left, and terminating 
Bn ter A Sirs s eel of bos miles, we reached 
at evening the am from wigich the 
water had aed sited a alittle only remained 
ho 
entirely sank, was sprea 
rding a little ‘soit for te animals. 
me out o 
aptive mountain here was wooded 
S| emis wien pine, cedars, and 
oak; and among the 
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