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Show ( 60 ) ' ounteu upon the fresh animals, <md rather late in the evening on thP. -- 31st of January, 1850, the over-fatiguerl adventurers arrived at he Phalanx fort, where they enjoyeu a hearty supper, consisting of hPt rice-cakes and beef- teaks of red-deer, &r.. 'The whole succeeding day was spent in eonversation, eating <1n:l drinking, in order to restore the fi:uffercrs to their former strength. The reg"Jlations of the company, as they had been established at the commencement of their residence in the fort, were kept in fo rce until 5th of February, \vhen Carrel, Hector, and Clark, fearing starVcltion from the little provision in the fort, and the little prosp('d CJ I being able to add to it by killing game or otherwise on the rolltP to California, resolved upon returning to the States; and accordingly, ;JI:.. ter taking an affectionate leave of the inmates of the tort, left on th(·:r 1lrenry journey back to St. Loui~, lVTo., where they arrived, afler underg- oing many privations and hardships, on the lst of .March, I' '.;; ). Previous to their depart11re from the fort, the more persevering lJ!J;, .. lc:lngari(lns h<ld re-organized and detcrmin('rl to pursue their journc, , ~s soon as the condition of the disablcrl members would p rm; t. Adam promised to continue his journal up to about two weeks af'i l'f their arrival in California, should they be so fortunate as to eY <·r 1each that country,-when he was to forward it to the United Sta ~ -~ hy express, and which, should this meet with remuneratino· fe-n-our will be pu!Jli.~;hcd soon. 0 ' 1"BE END. ( |
