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kept up such a continued screaming, that.we could, do nothing with her, 
and.were obliged to let her go. 
>» Jan 18.—There were Indian lodges and fish dams on the stream. 
There were no beaver cuttings on the-river; but below, it turned round 
to the right ; and, hoping that it would prove a branch of the Buenaventura, 
we followed it down for about three hours, and encamped. 
I rode out. with Mr. Fitzpatrick and Carson:to reconnoitre the eountry, 
which had.evidently been alarmed by the news of our appearance. This 
stream joined with the open valley of another to the eastward ; but which 
way the main water ran, it was impossible to tell. Columns of- rose 
over the country at seattered intervals—signals by which the Indians here, 
as elsewhere, communicate to each other that enemies are in the country. 
try to the Rocky mountains.. Every piece of iron that could be used:forthe 
purpose had been converted into nails, and we could make-no further use 
v -19.—A great number of smokes.are still visible this morning, 
attesting at once the alarm which our. appearance had spread among these 
people, and their ignorance of us. If they knew the whites, they would 
understand that their only object incoming g them was to trade, which 
required peace and. friendship; but they have nothing to trade—conse- 
quently, nothing to attract,the. white man ; Henee their fear and flight. 
At daybreak we hada heavy sees that sat out, and, returning up the 
stream, went out of our way in a circuit over a-little mountain > and e 
__ camped on the same stream, few miles aboye, in latitude 39° 19’ 21bye 
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tracks of Indians, who had descended from the upper waters, probably 
up the stream for about 14 miles to the foot 
rom 1-one branch issued in the southwest, the 
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