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necessary to abandon one of them, as he was unable to proceed any 

 further. 



On the 10th they made an early start, and left the mountains. 

 The width of the range they had passed through was upwards of one 

 hundred miles. At one place Guardipii, their guide, lost his way; 

 but on applying to Warfields' Indian wife, she pointed out the trail 

 without difficulty. 



They had now passed into the Sacramento Valley, and had met 

 with some of the Kinkla tribe of Indians, who were known to be 

 friendly, and they became relieved from anxiety. The botanical 

 character of the landscape changed as suddenly : instead of firs, pines, 

 &c, they found themselves among sycamores, oaks, and cotton-wood 

 trees. The oaks bear a variety of acorns, which are equally the food 

 of the bears and the Indians. The prairie bordering the Sacramento 

 at this place is about fifty feet below the upper prairie, and continues 

 for many miles very regularly on the same level ; the latter falling 

 into it by a sloping bank. 



SACRAMENTO INDIAN. 



In the evening the camp was visited by many of these friendly 

 and docile Indians, who made themselves quite easy, laughing and 

 joking, and appeared rather to look upon the party as beneath 

 them. They had some resemblance to the Shaste Indians ; most of 

 them were naked ; the others had a piece of deer-skin thrown over 

 their shoulders ; their faces were marked with an expression of good 

 humour. Some of them wore their hair long, extending below the 

 neck and divided from the top ; in others, and most commonly, it was 

 drawn back and gathered in a bunch behind, where it was fastened 

 with a string of deer-sinew ; their ears were bored, and a short string 



