EEPOKT AND JOURNAL. 



of mountain. After journeying 4.8 miles, at 9 n. m encamp 

 canon and sink of creek. Make only this short inarch so as 

 Wons-in-dam-me Creek to-morrow. Some rain to-day, with 



July 8, Camp No. 13, mouth of Won-a-ho-no-pe Canon.— \ 

 5,811 feet. Thermometer at 5 a. m., 58°. Leave outward t 

 cut, join it again in 3.1 miles. Continue on it 1.3 miles, and t 

 another short cut through a good pass in the Pah-re-ah range, 

 within 1.3 miles of our old Camp 21, on Wons-in-dam-me 

 encamp. Journey, 25.4 miles. In consequence of nearly all 

 a great deal of it passing through heavy sage, Ave did not get 

 the afternoon. Road now, however, on account of having b 

 Saw-wid Creek, 4.3 miles, and another, 6.8 miles, hack from 

 and which we crossed to-day, are both running streams alon» 

 abundance of pasture up in their canons. These can be benefi 

 who, in that case, should pass on the south side of the small s 

 to the southwest of camp, and encamp at the mouth of the ca 



Some eight or ten Diggers have followed us to camp, e 

 sticks. Several of them are entirely naked, except the bree< 

 shower of rain has been falling, but, although it came do* 

 Indians seemed to take it as if it was not an extraordinary 

 Indians, who was improperly frightened away at our camp oi 

 journal of May 21 and 22) by my cook, has been again met 

 has become reconciled. Indeed, he has performed for us exc 

 and we have therefore rewarded him with some presents. 



J uli) 9, Camp No. 14, Wons-in-dam-me (or Antelope) ('ret 

 sea, 6,595 feet. Thermometer at 5 a. m., 53^°. Morning cl< 

 a wheel of which was broken the other day, taken apart ai 

 wagons. Moved at 7. Just before leaving, the Indians (s 

 with a specimen of one of their dances, all entering into it ^ 

 and shouting with the utmost delight. The appearance of E 

 wagons in their country is quite an epoch in their lives, and 1 



After proceeding on outward route 1.6 miles, we divert 

 some foot-hills, and in 5.1 miles come to a couple of springs, wl 

 Bearing east of north, half a mile from these springs are hall- 

 call Barr Springs, after Sergeant Barr, of the Dragoons, who > 

 sorino-s, with the o-rass about them and in their vicinity, won 



an abundance of water ot good quality, but the grass i» sc; 

 are, however, two or three acres ot rush-grass a >ou it, v 

 small party. The pools are tinged with red, probably from 

 and three-tenths miles further across the valley (Ko-bah) we 



