Jedediah Smith 
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he called the Seedskeedee, knowing it to be the same stream so 
called in the north. This was the Colorado. Proceeding down 
the Colorado to the Mohaves he was kindly received by them 
and remained some time recuperating his stock. It may seem 
strange that the Mohaves should be so perverse, killing one 
set of trappers and treating another like old friends, but the 
secret of the difference on this occasion, perhaps, lay in the dif¬ 
ference of approach. Jedediah Smith was a sort of reincarna¬ 
tion of the old padres, and of all the trappers the only one 
Upper Valley of the Virgen. 
Photograph by C. R. Savage. 
apparently who allowed piety or humanitarianism to sway his 
will. His piety was universally known. It was not an affecta¬ 
tion, but a genuine religion which he carried about with him 
into the fastnesses of the mountains. Leaving the Mohaves he 
crossed the desert to the Californian coast, where he afterwards 
had trouble with the authorities, who seemed to bear a grudge 
against all American trappers, and who seized every oppor- 
