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were consequently in the state of mind which aggravates their innate 
thirst for plunder and blood. Their excuse, however, was taken in. 
part, and the usual evidences of friendship interchanged. . The pipe went 
round, provisions were spread, and the tobacco and goods furnished the 
customary presents, which they look for even from traders,and much more 
from Government authorities. 
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atitude 41° 36' 00"; longitude 107° 22’ 27" 
_ August 6.—At sunrise the thermometer was 46°, the morning being 
clear and calm... We travelled to-day over an extremely rugged country, 
Our road the next day was through a continued and dense field of arie- 
through which we were travelling was a high plateau, cons tuting the di- 
_ viding ridge yee the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and 
extending to a considerable distance southward, from the neighborhood of 
the Table rock, at the southern side of the South Pass. Though broken 
up into rugged and rocky hills of a dry and barren nature, it has nothing 
ofa mountainous character; the small streams which occasionally oceur 
belonging neither to the Platte nor the Colorado, but losing themselves 
either in the sand or in Small lakes. From aw eminence, in the afternoon, — 
a mountainous range became visible in the north, in which were recog- 
nised some rocky peaks belonging to the range of the Sweet Water valley; 
and, determining to abandon any further attempt to struggle through this 
-almost, impracticable country, we turned our course direetly north, towards 
-& pass in the valley oftheSweet Water river. A shaft of the gun earriage 
. Was broken during the afternoon, causing aconsiderable delay; and it was 
_ date in an unpleasant evening before we succeeded in finding a very poor 
» s€ncampment, where there was a little water in a deep trench of a ereek, 
and some scanty grass amoung the shrubs. All the game here consisted in 
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straggling buffalo bulls, and during the day there had been but very 
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