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Show JOUHNAL OF A VOYA d :: assi~t in the rear, and to carry the poor fellows provisions ; at the same time kept Baroney and one n1an hunting ..... Killed three deer. 8tb January, Tbursday.-Some of the different par-tics arrived. Put one man to stocking my rifle; other sent back to assist up the rear. Killed two ~ecr. 9th January, Friday.-The whole party was once more joined together, when we felt comparatively happy, notwithstanding thr great n1ortifications I experienced at having been so egregiously deceived as to the Red river. I now felt at considerable loss how to proceed, as any idea of services at that tin1e frmn n1y horses were entirely preposterous ; thus after various plans formed aud reject· eel, and the most mature deliberation, I determined to build a small place for defence and deposit, and leave part of the baggage, horses, my interpreter and one man, and with the balance, our packs of Indian presents, ammunition, tools, &c. on our backs, cross the mountains on foot, find the Red ri vcr, and then send back a party to conduct their horses and baggage by the most eligible route we could discover, by which time the horses would be so rocovcrcd as to be able to endure the fatigues of the march. In consequence of this determination, son1e were put to constructing the block houses, son1c to hunting, some to taking care of horses, &c. &c. I, 1nyself, made prcpara· tions to pursue a course of observations, which would enable me to ascertain the latitude and longitude of that situation, which I conceived to be an important one. Kill· ed ·three deer. 10tb January, Saturdrry.-Killed five deer ; took equal altitudes; angular distances of two stars, &c. but do not now recollect which. Killed three deer. lltb January, Sunday.-Ascertaincd the latitude and took the angular distances of some stars. Killed four deer. TO TUE SOU H C F' s' () 1· ~I' liE' AHKA0:SA \ V ' &c. 18.> 12th Janunrv, M oll( 'ct·v J>. . " 1' .r · - J "panng th b· · .1 march by separating it & . Ol . . c ~tggagc for 1 :3/b Janumy, '1 Ut-'.f:/ay~---\?V ~::,r~;vatiOHS COllliuued. pack. This day 1 obtaiw'd the g l~d out each man's utoon, which I cone 'lv ltl ang ~ between sun and · t H.' most correct . 1 of ascertainin If the lolJ c:it l • \V cl y possessed . b o llt l', as an Immer ·i . l . of Jupiter's satellites co lld s 011 tll1t emcrswn t~)ur tlcer. . L not now be obtained. Killed .l ·.Hb Jmuwry, TrcJncsda '.-\Ve J • COll!)JSUng of J 8 sold. . . h ) naJ chcd our party' I Cl s, t e doctor ·lnJ 1 c u.s carrying 4.5 lb . anu. 1 as nluch pr .( .. . myse 1, eac, h of proper, which, with ann & . d ovisiOn as he thought l~aving Baroncy and one :naJ~· ~~.a ~ -konSa~ average, 70lbs. W . , ' ' atnc • mah. c ctosscd the first rid n·e (I' . . of the river to the north f b ) cavmg the mam branch fork, on which we encamo cd u~~ ~nd. struck on the soULh the mountains, as its c -~ ' tcndmg to pursue it thro' Tl 1 OUl sc was more souther I lC <actor kill ed one deer 1)' . y •. ] 5th J.· . . . lSt<lllCC 1 :3 1111les. and tllltwr)' ' 1 /·.' l'~' l··r u ,c,y - 1''o ll ow 'd h. pass<.'u the m~tin rid ,." . of c up t lS branch Mountains II· l l g ' what I tcrnl the Blu" · a tct carl Tl J '"' hunter, went out . 1 Y· lc octor, myself, and one brourrht tllcttl • wit 1 our g uns, each killed a deer '111<.1 b mto camp D. ' ' 16th .h ., • 1 ~tancc l !J miles. anuary }rida -lVI . 1 day. 1<ncam d '. I ~· al c 1cd up the creek all h p car y as It w·:~.s SI . unt, but kiJicJ notl . D , lowmg. I went out to ta' 1 ung. ccr on th h '11 I IllS esscning n· C I ; t le ll10Ull- 17tb J . Istance 18 miles. wh anuary, Saturday.-M h d b c.n the great \.Vhite M . . arc c a out four tnilcs, us, m sight of } . ·h ountam presented itself before lllo h w nc we had been £ nt ' and throu h . or nwre than on , ~ought Red . g whlch we ::>upposed lay the 1 nvcr. w c 1 fi ong us, and bore aw· now e t the creek on the north of tains. Abott ay more cast, to a low place in the 1 sun-set tnoun-wc came to the edge of a pr<u.n.c , |
