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}. Carson, with rakmen> well ated instantly sent 
_ r, but returned in the night without: tidings of the missing 
The “ab! Sioadhae ten we had left, but neither he ner the mule 
arching’ down the sages they rem the tracks of ‘the mule, 
rive] along by Indians, whose t ereon ea side of those 
made by the animal. After iieitie - several ails ey Game to the mule it- 
selfsianding in some bushes, mortally w d in the side-by an arrow, 
left to diey that it might be apes apeer ve for food. nis 
found, in another place, as,they were hunting,about on the ground for Taw 
beau’s tracks, something that iol ‘tke a little puddleiof blood, but whieh 
the darkness prevented them from verifyieg. With these: details they re- 
turned = our camp,-and their report saddened all our ‘hearts. _ 
May 10.—This morning; as soon as there was light enough: to follow 
‘tracks, 1 set out myself, with Mr. Fitzpatrick and several men, in search.of 
Tabeau. We went to the spot where the: ee of puddled- blood had 
been. seen ; and this, we saw at once, had been lace where he fell and 
died. Blood upon the leaves, and beaten down bu es, showed that he had 
his wound about twenty paces from where he fell, and that he had strug- 
gled for his life. ‘He had probably been ‘shot : through the lungs with an 
arrow. baberenbhs noe where he lay and bled, it could be‘seen thathe had 
to the river bank, and: ease into it. No series of what 
had belonged to him sate be found, except a fragment of his horseequip- 
- ment. ‘Horse, gun, clothes—all became the p prey of these Arabs of the New 
World. 
Tabeau had been ‘one of our best men, and his unhappy.death spread a 
gloom over our’ party. Men, who have gone through such dangers and 
sufferings as:we had seen, become like brothers, and feel each vd s loss. 
To defend and avenge each other, is the deep feeling of all. wished 
toavenge his death; but the condition of our horses, languishing’ for grass 
waite hort forbade an expedition’ into unknown mountains. We knew the 
tribe who had Loy ree eegmapenerant same which had been‘insulting our 
Pe licen stwnnsatn -obe ‘whoveven:be- 
Gta Miveu 
ne ee was in a basin below a deep caiion—a: gap ‘of two thousand 
‘feet: serned inthe 1 moun caine teseyes sien _ Rio pega sre sand 
