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Show 8 6 TRAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. ten or fifteen feet, until some disguised rock brought me up, I reached the bottom," where I found my pony tied to a tree, immediately on the trail. No shipwrecked mariner on beholding the approach of a friendly vessel to deliver him from certain death, ever felt greater joy than I did, when I realized that it was my horse which I saw. This incident was most injurious to me, aud I felt its effects for several days, both in body and mind. I mounted my pony, and arrived in camp at dark, some four or five hours after the rest of the party. Captain Wolff saw my pony riderless, and suspecting that he had escaped from me, caught and tied him up in the place where he was sure to be found; thus repaying me a hundred fold for my medical advice and attendance on Salt creek. HOESE STEAKS FELSD IN TALLOW CANDLES, AND BLANC MANGE FOE DESSEET. At Bent's Fort, Col. Fremont had several pounds of candles made out of buffalo tallow; the want of convenient boxes to convey them, resulted in many of them being broken to pieces, so as to render them useless as candles. On the first of January, 1854, our men were regaled by unexpected, though not unwelcome luxuries. I had reserved with religious care, two boxes containing one pound each, of Alden's preserved eggs and milk.-(The yolks of the eggs were beaten to a thick paste with a pound of loaf sugar, the milk was also prepared with powdered sugar, and hermetically sealed in |
