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Show 182 JOURNAL 01" A VOYAGE him ; he and his con1panion imn1ediatcly joined me ; they said they had not known whether we were before or in the rear ; that they had eaten nothing for the last two days, and that this night they had intended to have boiled a deer skin to subsist on. We at length discov red a narrow ra. vine, where was the trace of the doctor and his companion ; as the water had ran down it and frozen hard, it was one continued sheet of ice ; we ascended it with the utmost difficulty and danger, loaded with the baggage. On the summit of the first ridge we found an encampment of the doctor, and where they had killed a deer, but they had now no n1eat. lie afterwards inforn1ed n1e that they had left the greatest part of it hanging on a tree, but sup· posed the birds had de~troyed it. I left the boys to bring up the remainder of the baggage, and went< ut in order to kill some sub istence: wounded a deer, but the darkness of the night approaching, could not find him, when Ire· turned hungry, weary and dry, and had only snow to sup· ply the calls of nature. Distance 8 miles. 5th January, Monday. - I went out in the morning to hunt, whilst the two lads were bringing up some of their loads still left at the foot of the n1ountain. Wounded sc· veral deer, but was surprised to find I killed none, and on examining my gun, discovered her bent, owing as I sup· pose, to some fall on the icc, or rocks ; shortly after re· ceived a fall, on the side of a hill, which broke her offby the breach ; this put 1ne into dcscspoir, as I calculated on it, as my grandest resource for great part of my party; returned to my companions sorely fatigued and hungry; I then took a double barrelled gun and left them, with as· suranccs that the first animal I killerl, I would return with part for their relief. About ten o'clock rose the highest summit of the mountain, when the unbounded space of th prairies again presented then1selvcs to my view, and .. TO THE SOUHCES OF 'l"ITE AR .. .. KANSA \V, &c. l B:J from some distant peaks I I. d. c ' mme tate 1y reco . d . be the outlet of the A k . gmze It to r ansaw, whJch we ha I I fi one month since r Th · . c c t nearly • 15 wa a great mortifi · b the same time I co~soled myself . h h canon, ut at acquired of the ~ource of th ~It ; _e knowledge I had rivers, with the river to the Il ·etl .a latte and Arkan~aw . ot 1 west supp d b Pwrr' Jaun whici1 sea 1 ' ose to e the ' crcc y any per b would ever purposely att son ut a madman the entrance of tho"'c me: emp: to trace any further than " ountams wh' h· l 1 · cured their sources frOin th . ' .. I: 1 aL utherto sc-man. e SCI utmizmg eye of civilized I arrived at the foot of th . river, in the afternoon d e mountazn, and bank of the on the oth '1 . ' an at the same time discovered cr s 101 e, Baroney . I h had found · . . Wit 1 t e horses ; the r 1 quxte an eligible pass, and had k'll J ~ 1a o and some dec. W I c one buf-wh. h I. e proceeded to our old . Ic we had left the 1Oth of l)ccem cai~lp, It. Saw the tra f h ber, and re-occupied ces o t e doct d h. could not discover th . or an IS companion, but . cu· retreat. Thts was my b' 1 d never to P . trt 1- ay' and most fervently did I hope F. ass another so miscrabl D. ' Ired a gun off . ' ' Y • I stance 7 n1iles 6l as a Slgn;~l forth doctor. . i'J JanumJ' T d I . b k ac · ' ucs ay.- )Ispatchcd the t 1-1· Wlth son . . . wo so uiers th le PI ovtswn to meet the first lads d . em on, and the int c ' an assist , 1 crpreter a hunting Ab 0 cock the doctor . . · out cight He had been c fi cadtne Jn, havmg seen sonle of the men. a vertt•g o wh · 011 ne to the camp [; . 1 Ol one or two days by on the mou~t 1 .procel:ed.cd from some berries he had c~ten d . ams. fis cmnpanion b h I . eer, which th h . roug t c own SIX t b ey ad at thetr camp . th . 0 e out of d . ' us we again began of the men a a.n gder of starvmg. I n t h e a fit ernoon some . rnvc and part ' . . ' WJth provisions & ' r• were unrnediately returned 7tL r ' c. Killed three deer. :~ "mzuat)' 111: 1 ' cc ncsday.-Sent more Inen back to |
