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tle near his te Shortly afterwards, a party of mountaineers galloped. 
upto us—fine-lo ing and hardy men, dressed in skins and mounted on 
= fat horses ; “alllbe them were several Connectient men, a portion of 
‘yeth’s party, whom I had seen the year before, and ae were men 
, contin down the river, we encasnped at noon ok ‘the. A4th at its 
n the Arkansas river. A short distance above our en ment, 
the ie bank of the Arkansas, is a pueblo, (as the Mexicans call their 
‘civilize Indian villages,) where a number of mountaineers, who had mar- 
nied Spanish women in the valley of Taos, had collected together, and oc-. 
apied Chee in Parsinn, carrying on at the same time a desulto Tn- 
trade. Dey were princ ally Americans, and Ptreated us with all the 
‘hospi 
| of excellent milk. I learned here that Maxwell, 4 in company with two. 
re See tdbacs fi in Siapradeeii and cae I was faite 
the been a popular tumult-among the eo wttegs or cred Jian, 
: {yesidingmear Taos, against the “/foreigners’’ of that p it ch they 
had plundered their houses and ill-treated their fais, A cmcdane, 
= i, Fm whom had been destroyed, was Mr. Beaubien, father-in-law of 
ny I,had expected to obit supplies and who had 
ne lig. eae? his escape to Santa 
~Byt his position of affairs, our expo on of obtaining supplies frog 
Paos was cut off. I had tere the satisfaction to meet our good buffalo 
unter of 1842, Christopher Carson, whose services I sonsiddred myself 
unate to secure again; and asa reinforcement of mules was absolutely 
ecessary, I despatched him immediately, with an account of our necessi- 
ties to Mr. Charles Bent, whose principal post is on the Arkansas river, 
Sed es por: below Fontaine-qui- gent. He was ee to Hon 
tude 104° 5: "30"; and its elevation above Hitied 48604 ‘ 
% On the morning of the 16th, the time for Maxwell’s arrival iis eXx- 
: » We resumed our journey, leaving for him a note, in which it was 
.4 that id ‘wait for him at St. Vrain’s fort until the morning of the 
26th, in rth event that-he sh ould succeed in his commission. Our direction 
x ip the Boili Spring river, it being Soe intention to visit the celebrated . 
from which the ee t takes its name, and which are on its 
stream, there bei very where a great abundance of préle. eiag 
= ng.ev: 
ophylia, in bloom, was a characteristic plant along the river, 
re ‘bunches,“with two to five flowers on each. B utiful ote: 
Some 
