: iE 
| thousand 
of the basi 
168 
Our animals were somewhat repaid for their, 
ne. rare: Fyanganrting camping ground | 
gy summit of the ridge, which forms here 
th ivi ee) 
n 
bloging to the Great Bas Basin. 
We considered ourse rossing the rim 
in; and, pos te it at this point, we 
an extensive mountain meadow, 
miles, occupying twenty-se 
cre prema eon 
our 
in the centre. camp dut 
night, 
rosnot, had tolled all raf 
and the 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
3 
Bie 
ve|the water o 
"| river proceeds over 
of | to Santa Fé 
[1844, 
and vc ion — < camp _* ies horse 
guards, and scouts, isp e from. 
the tim sae of leaving oe frontiers of Misco uri 
until we return to them 
we le ft the Vegas, we had the 
guide e had left California 
with the great ‘caravan ; and iving, 
ong the trail, that there 
iz) 
@ 
"a 
® 
5 
“exis his Naga Knowledge 
: Jaen country, g d prese 
mind, and goo om ws sateet hiave brought 
im safe on “yates a perilous oe 
May 13.—We ay at ‘this 
ment; and, 
gress ina northeastwardly 
beasts we redapeaniieas into road va 
ay 
noted or of dete and ribrod 
pon the waters of which we 
now were, belonged to the system of lakes 
in the eastern part of the — hynny 
the Great Salt lake, and its southern limb, 
the Utah lake, were sate prin neal towards 
the region of which e were approac 
fing. We traveiled fo c several ere in this 
oe within the of the Great Basi 
ossing little streams soins bore to b the left 
for Sevier 
Yy salt lake, 
| about seven miles long and one — at the 
>; | northern icine of which w 
| for the n 
is little lake,  whiok well 
imme- 
over a mountainous country 
ona 17—After 4 440 miles of travelling 
a trail, 
