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Show l70 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE and from their having cut down so large a quantity of trees to support their horses, conclude there must have been at least one thousand souls : passed several more in the course of the day; also one Spanish camp. Distance 15 miles. Killed two deer. This day came to the first cedar and . pme. lst December, Monday.-The storm still continuing with violence, we remained encamped ; the snow by night one foot deep ; our horses being obliged to scrape it away, to obtain their nliserable pittance, and to increase their tnisfortunes, the poor animals were attacked by the mag~ pies, who attracted by the scent of their sore backs, alighted on them, and in defiance of their wincing and kicking, picked 1nany pbccs quite raw; the difficulty of procuring food rendered those birds so bold as to light on our mens arms and eat n1eat out of their,hands. One of our hunter's out but killed nothing. 2d December, T uesday.-It cleared off i9- the night, and in the morning the thermometer stood at 17 below O, (Reaumcr) being three times -as cold as any morning we had yet experienced. We killed an old bufFalo on the opposite side of the river, which here was so deep as to swin1 horses. Marched and found it necessary to cross to the north side, about two miles up, as the riuge joined th~ river. The ford was a good one, but the icc ran very baJ, and two of the men got their feet froze before we could get accommodated with fire &c. Secured some of our old buffalo and continued our march. The country being very rugged and hilly, one of our horses took a freak in his head and turned back, which occasioned three of our re~r guard to lay out all night; l was very apprehensive they might perish on the open prairie. Distance 1 ~ miles. 1'0 THE SOURCES OF THE .ARKA~ SA \Y, &c. 17; Sd December, JlVednesda!·-:-The weather n1oderating to S below O, our absentees JOined, one with hi!> feet froz- en, but were not able to bring up the horse ; sent two men back on horseback. The hardships of last voyage had now began, and had the climate only been as severe as the climate then was,. son1e of the men 1nust have perished, for th:y had no winter do thing ; I wore n1yself cotton -overalls, for I had not calculated on being out in that in. clP· mh cnt s· eason of the year. Dr. Robinson and myseI f, Wlt asSlstan:s, went out and took the altitude of the north mountam, on the base of a mile . • afiter h. h h • ' W IC , to-g: t cr with Sparks, we endeavoured to kill a cow but ~lthout effec~, ~illed two bulls, that the men n1ight usc ptcces of their htdcs for n1ockinsons. Left Sparks out. On our return to camp found the nlen had got back with the strayed horse, but too late to n1arch. 4th December, Tbursday.-Marched about five ; took ~p Spar_ks who _had s~cceeded in killing a cow. Killed wo buffalo and SIX turkies. Distance 20 Iniles. p 5th December, Friday.-Marched at our usual hour asscd one very bad place of falling rocks ; had to carr; our loads. Encamped on the main branch of the river nealkr the entrance of the south mountain. In the evening' wa ed up to th · in m e mountain. I-Ieard 14 guns at camp dur-d g , y a?sence, which alanned me considerably. r eturn-c as qUickl y as possi. bl e, and found that the caus' e of my • The perpendi 1 h · 1 lO,J8r feet aud . d c~ a.r Clg lt of the mouut:~.in from th~ level of the pr:Uric. was ' a mlttmg that the p · · 8 c it would mak, h I . rame was ODO H:e t fi om the level of the st:a . c t e c evatiOn of this pt:ak I8 8 f , smg thccalculat •d h . h ,s I cet, equal to some, and surpas-that of Chirnb ~ etgl t of otheu, for the pc:Ik of T t:nerilft: and fallint• short uf or.Jz(lon y I 701 f · I d . o t•l all the sav·l • . ' ~ct. n t:cd rt was so r emarkable as to be known . 'gc nation for hundreds of '1 J lllltntion by the S . . nu cs :lroun ' aull to be spoken of with ad· 1 panrards of N M. . .t 1 ncced in ou . . . • ClCICO, anu was t lC bounds of their travd N. vV. r w.lndt rmg Ul the m . . llhcn in a vall ) f ountams, It wJ.s never out of our sight (cx ccnt ey rom the I 4th " r b I ' l .-..ovctn a to llC 2-7th JanuJry. |
