bottom, which afforded us a pleasant 
trees, 
make the ravines almost im 
rable. 
ve several days’ laborious bie eri: 
d in extricating ourselves fro 
vening en th i 
ver. Continui ‘our 
along the Arkan d meeting on the 
way a war party of Arapahoe — (who 
had r ly been committin 
ut- 
rages at Bent’s fort, killing stock dua dri- 
ving off horses,) we arriv fore su 
the Pueblo, near po mouth of the Fonta 
sence er had been established on the | i 
river, some thirty miles above 
_ June 30.—Our caval 
cade moved rapidly 
the broad road 
July we arrived at s , about 70 
miles below the mouth of the } - 
bouit. As we emerged into view from the 
ves on the river, we were ted with a 
ye of repeated 
disc of the fort, where 
guns 
we were received by Mr. » George Bent with 
a cordial 
in the enjoyment of which we spent ‘several 
eable days. 
re We we in the 
w coubeiiancill were accus- 
tomed to live; and al dangers and dif- 
ties of the r mine: considered past, 
four of them, po ath Carson and Walker, 
i the fi 
On d own 
the A Arkansas, Sr se along oad wag. | it 
on about “a miles 
belowéthe: fort. the way we met a very 
large villa Sioux and Cheye In- | w 
dians, who, with the Ara) were re- 
ing fi crossing of 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
| fort on the Smoky Hill river, losing i in = 
affair several of their own- ye 3 
tl 
1844, 
sirous that we- ae 
oe 
betes ret 
were desi 
odies men, and famiiy 
s of women re eliabakons with dog 
ageag e, and long lines of 
appearance was pictu 
Osi 
bly to see ee which re 
cmidlan me to complete, as fi 
taking a northeasterly directio 
i ~ viding grounds ise 
that r 
vac. untry ovine without timber. 
a she roe of the 8th we encam 
n th 
or dry creeks with sandy be 
met together, forming the head rea a stream 
which afterw —— proved to be 
Hill fork of he Kansas river. 
The next pre » a8 we were leaving 
enc nt, a number of A oe In- 
dians were discovered. 
hich 
ny lit _— * —— it had 
co to eighty 
feet in width; with a lively current in small 
channels, a principally dis- 
persed among quic 
_ Gradually enlarging, i ina few days’ march 
ame a river eighty yards in a 
wooded with seri Ss of cott 
fz: 
ves 
ood. Our road as generally over nell 
uplands ioaiecligg the river, which were 
of buffalo 
closely covered with a sward 
Se eee en meet anene ae 
