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ainsi Nelly: a ty Ph i] to Be eisty eleinbue. They deceived me 
which is Grand river, one of ‘the into the belief that I should find a ie ie 
ton branches of ae Colorado of Cali-| their village, and I could not avoid ae- 
€ were now moving with some | companying them; but put several slow: 
rom th 1, we found t tween us and their village, and forted 
Arapahoe village had also passed this way. | strongly on the banks of the river, which 
As we com ra out of their enemy’s| was everywhere rapid and deep, 
country, was a war Megat weja hun yards in breadth. T 
nd thi 
were desirous = sedi them. After 
afternoon’s 
exit Seca tribes ary to a main fork o 
Grand river, which ran ehiotieh this portion 
rounded by the high mountains, timbered 
on the lower parts with quaking asp and 
gage was err watehed 
and covered, a number of th ings were 
stolen. 
The next morning we descended the 
river ws sake eight miles, and halted a 
e | short perma above a caijon, through which 
rand He ar 
riv Phare rom the Park. 
| cele nell 
deep yards in 
breadth, and “ti ae at this mao 
ty feet. A frame for the buat being 
made, ou ‘hal aggage 
very soon was ferried 
across ; thea horses, in the mean sien, swim- 
8.—Our scouts, who were as usual 
atest : inde from a butte this morning “the ing over. A southern fork of eae 
signal of Indians, and we rode up in time to| river here makes its junction, reer 
e ty of about 30 Arapahoes. They | posite to ‘ae branch by whi es had mit 
bes men “4 ath women a into the hills—| tered the valley, and up this we continued 
main 
; but they appeared disposed 
to be unfriendly, and galloped back ci ae 
to“the vill Knowing that had 
e toe ot Me I descended imamediasly 
for about eight miles in the sheet and 
bank, 
Patra widened by islands, —e separa- 
‘ ed into several channels, bye rte very swift 
current an = bed of rolle 
On the 20th we traveled up the left por 
with the prospect o bad road, the t 
trou 
into oe bottoms of Grand river, which| here taking the pier side; but ne 
‘were overflowed in places, the river being | stream was up, and nowhere fordable. A 
up, and made the best encampment ‘the | piny ridge of ins, wi 
ground afforded. We had no time to build | peaks, was on our right all the day, and a 
a fort, but found an open place among the = mo n appeared 
willows, which was defended by the river 
vedic a the overflowed bottoms on 
e had searcely made o 
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any foa' mr torrents with rocky 
to the river; and in the 
Arapahoe x . é : 
the i = to look for Utahs in the Bayou 
' {at they woud vit oot camp, with the 
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