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Show A SOLEMN SCENE. 101 event with me, and rendered more so by the impressive scene which followed. Col. Fremont came out to us, and after referring to the dreadful necessities to which we were reduced, said " a detachment of men whom he had sent for succor on a former expedition, had been guilty of eating one of their own number." He expressed his abhorrence of the act, and proposed that we should not under any circumstances whatever, kill our companions to prey upon them. " If we are to die, let us die together like men." He then threatened to shoot the first man that made or hinted at such a proposition. It was a solemn and impressive sight to see a body of white men, Indians, and Mexicans, en a snowy mountain, at night, some with bare head and clasped hands entering into this solemn compact. I never until that moment realized the awful situation in which I, one of the actors in this scene, was placed. I remembered the words of the sacred Psalmist, (Psalm cviii. 4-7) and felt perfectly assured of my final deliverance.-"They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way : They found no city to dwell in. " Hungry and thirsty their souls fainted within them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered themout of their distresses. " And he led them forth by the right way that they might go to a city of habitation. " Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for' his wonderful works to the children of men." It was a clear, cold night, on the Eagle Tail River, after a long fast, and a dreary walk, our men had returned supperless to sleep on their snowy bed, and |