REPORT AND JOURNAL. 



tankment At 11 o'clock. 



nil lake and the 



butthey had run away fi 

 lie said he was so old thi 



been around eating at the dim-rent messes, and at length had so p»i-v.l himself as to 

 be unable to eat more until lie had disgor-ed, when he went anmnd again to renew 

 the pleasure. 1 showed him my watch, the works of whirl, he looked upon with a 



great deal of wonder, lie said he would believe what I told him about the magnetic 

 telegraph the next time he was told it. lie is at least sixty years old, and says he 

 never had a chief. I asked him if his country was a good one. He said it was. lie 

 liked it a good deal better than any other. I asked him why. Because, he said, it had 

 a great many rats. ] asked him if they ever quarreled about their rat country. He 



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'he guide and party left us this morning, and arc to be absent two or three days 

 in researches ahead. Pete returned this evening from this party and reports our pass 

 to-morrow to be the one directly west from cam}), as T had concluded from this after- 



The lake we are on is several acres in extent. Ducks frequent it. The grass 

 about it and along the creek is quite luxuriant, and expands in places into meadows oi 

 considerable area. Cedar is found on the heights. Should it ever become necessary 

 to establish a post, say near the east entrance of Won-a-ho-nupe Canon, the grass, 

 water, and timber of this mountain-range would be amply sufficient, and fine granite 

 building-stone could be found in the cafion 



The party has given my name to this lake, park, and pass ; and also to the creek, 

 but as it has been my rule to preserve the Indian names, whenever I can ascertain 

 them, and Won-a-ho-nupe is the name of the creek, I shall continue so to call it. 



For the past two days the ground lias been so resplendent with flakes of .mica of 

 a golden hue as to constantly remind you how rich it would be in gold were the shin- 

 ing particles veritably such. 



May 28, Gamp No. 24, Simpson's Pari; Pe-er-re-ah range.— Longitude, 116° 49'; lat- 



