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nidosatges San manifestly a ousattasion shd eat colcolatian going Pato florida, 
f the desert, and soi severity 
relaRanoDen nd relaxation only—for camp guards, horse guards, and scouts, 
re indispensable from the Ameget leaving the frontiene of Missouri until 
Bi one 
fier we left the Vegas, we had.the gr ratification to be joined by the the f-. 
mous hunter and trapper, Mr. Joseph Walker, whom I have before men- 
tioned, and who now became our guide. He had left tale wih ; 
great caravan; and perceiving, from the ygns along the trail, that the 
was a party of whites ahead, which he judged to be mine, he detached hime, 
self from the caravan, with eight men, (Americans,) and ran the gauntlet of 
the desert robbers, killing two, and getting some of the horses wounded, 
and eded in overtaking us, Nothin ng but his great knowledge of the 
count ry, great courage and presence of mind and good rifles, could 
brought him safe from such a perilous enterprise: — 
ay 13.—We remained one day at this noted. place. of rest and refresh 
ment; and, resuming our progress in a. northeastwardly direction, we ee: 
scended into a broad valley, the water of which is tributary to Sewier 
The next day we came in sight of the Wah-satch range of mountains on 
the. right, white with snow, and here forming the southeast part of the Great 
asin. Sevier lake, ‘upon the waters of which we now were, belonged to 
the system of lakes in the eastern part of the Basin—of which, the Great 
Salt lake, and its southern limb, the Utah lake, were the principal—to- 
wards the region of which we were now approaching. We travelled for 
several days 1 in this direction, within the rim of the Great Basin, crossing 
little streams which bore to the left for Sevier lake; and plainly seeing, by 
the cfisngad aspect of the country, that we were entirely clear of the 
Genes oa approaching the regions which appertained to the system of the 
Rog ; mountains. We met, in this traverse,a few mounted Utah Indians, 
dvance of | eee main: body, watching the approach of the great caravans 
— ne We te iched ult. lake, about,seven. miles long and one 
ae at the nortl pinextremity.¢ ‘which we encamped for th€night. This _ 
li lake, which we merits its characteristic name, lies immediately at 
nearly op ea 
of mountains tui which the Spani ial: trail passes; and w “ again 
road, we again y of 
through the wilderness. “The g Spanish trail bad borne « the 
crossing the Wah-satch range. Our course led to the nor east, a 
foot of that range, and leaving it Ae he Sha ot Sp The mountain present- 
itself tous under - ea tig ob Sgragie rising igor e the other, 
) late of the 
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