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W^Taz, and Mazatlan, in tlie Gulf, I sailed nortliward to San 

 lem Francisco, "where; in course of time, all our surveying parties 

 ^i^collected. 



About tlie middle of February, 1868, I started afresh from 



an Francisco, and recrossed the continent about the 41st 



^y parallel of latitude. The Sierra ]N"evada and Eocky Monn- 



liestains were this time crossed in the depth of winter; the 

 SStiiesert or Great Basin was traversed at a -paxt where it is 700 

 niles wide. I yisited the Comstock lode, the largest silver 



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tveyvode yet discovered, and other mining districts in ''The 

 ijfe Basin;" I passed through Great Salt Lake City, thence 

 ward ,-isited Denver, and finally completed the circle of travel by 

 J tk 5triking my old route at Fort Wallace. As the greater part 

 ' this return -joiu-ncy was made by the well-known overland 

 )ute through Nebraska, Utah, and Nevada, I have thought 

 it unnecessary to give a detailed description of it, but have 

 ji(ii, Endeavoured to contrast faii'ly this strip of country with those 

 gciltover which our parties passed about the Both and 32nd 

 ijj, ^parallels respectively. 



ui; The accounts of adventure, Indian fights, &c., scattered 



(j^hrough the following pages, are, with a few insignificant 



, «j^xceptions, the unvarnished recitals of events in which we 



j^urselves took part or were closely connected. 



" (^ Several articles, upon districts surveyed by our parties, but 



wot visited by me, have, through the kindness of friends, 



gijteen contributed to this book. One article describes the 



■^ imtry from Camp Grant, where I left my friends, westward 



i0Si the Pacific Ocean ; another gives an account of the passage 



i the Great Canon of the Colorado by a man named James 



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:e, whom some of the members of the expedition met at 

 Jl^t Mojave, a point south of the mouth of the cailon; in 

 ' ' Appendix will he found an article written hy our botanist, 





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