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rues 
and the weather was most delightful 
as literal 
and the vg echo of t 
rifles on i 
by whom they were driven out. 
3g" 
> 
g perhaps 
they were engaged dians ; but in a 
short time t e with the 
meat of seven fat cows 
iring the earlier r part t of the — s ri, | 
the river had been merely a narrow ravine 
hago high piny air: Hes ns, bliskind on 
es, but particularl y on the west, b 
ges; but, after several 
out into 
Apprehending from this 
reason, and the character of the mountains, 
which are known to be extrem 
iddle branc 
flat valley “gears between timber- 
ed ridges on the left and 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
We| 
to noon under the shade of the pines, | 
a | forded a better pass than the 
=i ;| the bayou 
[1s44,, 
a 
e| continued up the valley, in which th 
e stream. 
rapidly ‘diminished, breaking into set trib-_ 
utaries—every hollow affording water. At 
our noon _ the hunters jprned us with 
the Whi 
from their encampment, they seg ferseg! 
fs sash snag surrounded by a y of 
who informed them tha t t thelr 
ar 
wage war party, consisting of almost 
very man in the village, except those who 
were too old to go to kant were going over 
attack them. ‘The main body had as- 
cended the left fork of ne ae which af- 
ranch we were 
ee satialiod: By the te 
boiling water, our elevation here w: 
— ‘and a ne pine forest fees aa 2 
e the 0 tte we continued ow 
occasionally through open pines, with a very 
ase e 
buffalo, enjoying the e ata gall lake 
among the pines; and the rt the = 
branches ap as they broke through 
woods, 
encamped pen place among the pines, | mated height of 11,200 feet re the 
| here we built a strong fi moun- | river s' itself into small branches and 
j tains exhibit their usual = ae growth of| springs, heading nearly in the summit of the 
raced alc d, among |-ridge, wig h is very narrow. mediately 
[others is guontana ero wt bright | belo was a green valley, nes which 
BB bcos gy Soene “seem sero a ta showy plant. This} ran a panbe and a short di posite 
‘ many parts of | rose snowy mountains, whose summits were 
_ the count senna wr aching the Uintah | formed into of k. We 
| Waters. ith fields of iris were se n afterwards satisfied ourselves that im- 
| ¢@rulea, violets, esparcette, and straw- | mediately beyond ins was the 
' berries. ain branch he Arkansas river—most 
At dark, we perceived a fire in the edge | probably g directly with littie 
of the -| stream below us, which gathered its waters 
in ins near by 
i the ed character of the moun- 
tains around the of 
ex-| which their r appearance ly jase, de- 
terred me oie to reach 
had | it, which ers have involved a greater 
length of 
time than now remained at my dis- 
iil — 
ceeeetaeia enema ~ 
herd of | 
