e nam 
_ cipal eta from this scton of the 
| sateh chain. Weh 
1844 | 
Our course led to 
foot of that ne and leaving it on thé 
right. The m 
r river, towing ” 
ects its prin- 
Va 
ered a region 
pee astoral promise abnslie with 
of 4 reat 
unch grass, soil that 4 
fine streams, the ric 
with the general character of its bor ering 
a — fertility of soil and v 
unkno o him, 
sidan soni fre- 
—We met a band of Utah In- 
armed with rifles, and use their ri 
The chief _ _ fusee, which he had ouivied 
n to his rifle. They we 
s the Spanish trail, 
of a —, —_— than those of the desert. 
They ¢ their depredations with 
form, seal suk. oe color = traide and toll 
for passing through their country. Inst 
of attacking and killing, sho affect. to pur- 
chase—takin ng the horses ey sare and giv- 
minal The | him 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
the Wah-satch | and tied 
Thc northeast, 4 ay the 
ith|s 
rthwardly to 
-| each end— 
rd: 
— 
- iw 
a = 
weta- | see 
ar into the yi wre 
he aided by a well- —< chief, who gr 
merican or En 
| the first explorer 
We had 
used ro} at. 
meal ri our T little f float. 
s “in ‘or rwards, yer shore to 
The es swam, our place. 
be sinks which was the ~ northern | 
22 
ter 
a 
point of its bend, - latitude a 399° 
anks tained the 
for ‘fertility and Shenson which we 
n for some days, 
proac 
after some American 
was the first American na 
with since leaving th 
m the es 
named 
can trapper or hunter, and { 
me w 
n names, 
distance none; from 
vetia anaes to las Ve, egas 
Santa Clara, 1,000 more, all wer 
i m the “Mississippi to the Pa 
cifi Brena, and American or English 
were intermixed; and this prevalence of 
names indicates “he national character of 
here the artes to lose one of 
Badea who’ 
and efficient men. 
wards hima gun by th 
mer being caught, a ga age 
i pr ball A tinea his head. e 
of the river 
ig the next da asli he ridge along 
ataen, vedca, Mandan alandbada 
main tributary of the lake 
—which, deflecting from its northern 
Jake. It was really a fine river, from eight 
to twelve feet deep; and, after eee 
vain for 2 fordable made little 
made, and 2 ‘conveyance across a} 
River. nd give = good convey in bundles, 
from a village, which was encamped near 
the 
Lang covered» with ~ grass, and directed 
a high snowy 
the foot sot al which ch lay the Utah On | 
our right was a bed of high mountains, their ei | 
summits covered with snow, pea | 
een 
mouth of the river. They were 
