1844]. 
“me, and reported mrorene ne Hore es 
the day had SA beeceearen t 
wledge, to the Seip we h 
sm in search of a lame mule, ot re- 
While we were speaking, a smoke 
ines suddenly from the cotto 
low, which plainly told us bat at had befallen 
ber surround- 
c 
woes their pes Carson, 
with several men mounted, was instantly 
sent down the rive, ce retu 
seme — of the missing m: They 
to the camp we had left, ae ‘neither: he 
bon aie mule was there. Sear ing 
the @iver, they wpe the tracks of the mule, 
evidently driven along by Indians, whose 
thing that looked — a little puddle of — 
but which the dar revente 
verifying. 
to our camp, and their report saddened all our 
is morning as si 
was light enough to follow tracks, T set out 
myself, with itzpatri rth 
in searc Tabeau. t to 
the spot where t appearance of puddled | g 
h nm seen; and this, we saw at 
blood had bee: 
once, had been the vlide where he fell and 
died. upon the leaves, and beaten 
down bushes, Se ‘that he had got a 
enty 
him Id be f ae erty ng eR his 
m + ‘ound, except a 
horse equi fc equipm ; clothes—all 
ranean seis Raia the New 
u had been one of our best men, 
th a 
. CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
ith aa details they retu rievteil pe: 
lad counek wk snow for abeut two 
feet from their summits down. 
themselves to us no more. 
was. on: the 
the dese 
bald and rocky ; here the. wood- 
cedar and pine, a — of trees. 
gave shelter to birds—a n 
sight—which could not hare lived in the 
desert we had f 
mountain, fa 
ith 
7 of precnigebing size ; and on the hills, 
where hese gn often seen, a good and 
gone Ras ria gd aie | if 
Seat the cuck, the 
snowy mee on our right showed out 
