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taining among other things an entire set of machinery for a mill which Mr. 
Childs designed erecting on the waters of the Sacramento river emptying 
into the bay of San Francisco. 
We were joined here by Mr. William cp of Missouri, who, intending 
this year to visit the settlements in Oregon, had been invited to accompany 
us, and proved a useful and agreeable addition to the party. From this en- 
campment, our route until the 3d of June was nearly the same as that de- 
scribed to you in 1842. Trains of wagons were almost constantly in sight; 
giving tothe road a populous and animated appearance, although the great- 
er portion of the emigrants were collected at the crossing, or already on 
their march beyond the Kansas river. 
Leaving at the ford the usua! emigrant road to the mountains, (which you 
will find delineated with considerable detail on one of the accompanying 
maps,) we continued our route along the southern side of the Kansas, where. 
they charged into the camp, drove off a number of our best horses; but we 
delay and trouble, and threatened danger and loss, and broke down some 
good horses at the start, and actually endangered the expedition, Was a first 
our observations, the junction of the streams is in latitude 39° 
tude 96° 24' 56", and at an elevation of 926 feet above the gulf 
For several days we continued to travel along the Republican, th 
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