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Show [ ~74 J 290 While engaged in crossing one of t~e numer?u.s creeks which frequen!l impeded and checked our way, somet_nncs ohltgmg us to ascend them r!r several mile , 01~e of the people_ ( Alex1s A y~t) _was shot th~ough the leg b the accidental d1sc~1arge of a n_ile-a 1~1wrtt f y 1~1g and patuful mischanc{, to be crippled for l1fe by at~ acc1dcnt, aLter ha v lllg ncar! y accomplished in safety a long and eventful JOurney. lie was a youug man of remarkabl good and cheerful temper, and had been atnong the useful and cflicict!t lllen of the party. After having trave11c~ directly al_ong its banks for, ~wo hundred and nmety miles, we le~t tl~c nv_er, w!~ere lt bon~ sud~euly_ oil m rt northwesterly direc ion, towards 1t JunctiOn wtth the Repubhcan fork of the Kansa~ distant abont sixty miles; ancJ, contitn~ing o~1r ea ·t~rly conrse, iu about tw~nty miles we entered the wagon road irom Santa 1~ ' to Iudepeuclence, and 011 the last day or July encamped again at the little town of Kansas, ou the banks of the Missonri river. Duriug onr protracted absence of fourteen n1onths, in the course of which we had ncce~sarily been exposed to great varieties of weather and of climate no one cac'c of sickuess had ever oceurrcd among us. ' Ilere ended our land journey; and the day following onr arrival, we fonnd ourselves on board a stemnboat rapidly glidiug down the broad Missouri. Our travel-worn anim3.1s had not been sold and dispersed over the country to renewed labor, but were placed at good pasturage on the frontier, and arc now ready to do their part in the con1ing expedition. On the 6th of August we arrived at St. Louis, where the party was :finally disbanded; a great nnruber of the men having their homes in the 1eighborhood. Andreas Fneute~ also remained hore, having readily found employment for the winter, and is ouc of the mcH engaged to accompany me the present year. Pablo Hernandez remains in the family of Senator Deuton, where he is well taken care of, aJHl conciliates good will by his docility, intelligence, and amiability. Geueral Almonte, the ~1 exican minister at Washington, to whom he was of con rsc made known, kindly ofTered to take charge of him, and to carry him hack to Mexico; but the boy preferred to remain where he was until he got an education, for which he shows equal ardor ana aptitnue. Our Chinook Indian had his wish to see the whites fully gratified. He accompanied me to Washington, and, after renmining several months _at the Columbia college, was sent by the Indian department to Philadelphia, where, among other things, he learned to read and write well, and speak the English language with some fluency. He will accompany 1ne in a few days to the frontier of Missouri, whence be will be sent with some one of the emigrant companies to the village at the Dalles of the Columbia. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, I J. C. FREMONT, Bt. Copt. Topl. Engineers. 291 [ 174 J TAR L E 0 F D I " 1' A N C E S 1. r.o t. THE ROAD 'rRAVEJ.LEU BY 'l'tr8 1•;\:P I·~l)J'f'ION lN J 1:3 ~\~lJ 1 t~ 4 1843. Mny .29 30 31 Juno 1 2 ~ 4 6 7 10 ll 12 1:1 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 '.)."..) 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ~0 Jul) 1 2 3 4 26 27 28 0 UT W A RJ) .J 0 IT H N E V. J:i'rom J{ansus tanding to Pori Vantuuuer. Miles. 1 JY!iles. 7 '"I 22 29 2() 55 2!~ 78 22 100 2:1 123 18 !41 19 160 14 174 8 J 2 !) 18'"1 2'l 28 18 17 .'>..l 14. 23 18 2() 2~/ 26 188 212 210 25 275 1 296 :310 333 :lfi 1 1 377 I 4.04 430 456 I 490 .luuc'lion of ~tooky Ililt and HC'puh- 11cnn forJH;. 26 I 34 26 5lG 1 t)rossiug of tilt' Rr- 24 21 30 21 2H i32 29 28 18 4 26 20 fi10 I fi67 I !)!)7 I (HS 64.4: 676 705 733 751 755 781 801 publ ican. outh fork. t. V rnm',; fori I I~ !Jfi~ li 1 n !J t , 7 I :w I,UI I I ~u 1 ,o,lo 1 !.) ~(i I,OG() 10 :l:$ 1 I,OHfl 11 ~W 1,11H 1 12 I, ltl :1 I a ~ n L, J.>z t1!J t.Iui 1·1 25 I I ' I !l'2 15 I 29 l t,:.!'31 16 I 2() 1,211 i 21 1,:!(18 :Jz 1 I,:wo J7 18 19 20 21 ~6 27 28 29 :30 31 • cvt. 1 2 !J 4 5 () 2 1 1,32A :30 I. :l!"IH I 2G I I' !3 1 37 I 1,421 12 1,4!'13 22 I J,tto5 L,'lfi:l 21 I I , 'liH I 21 I 1,50:> 27 17 ]!) 26 J ,532 I 1,519 1,568 1 1 , G!Jtl l,GlG I I '"I 1 ,G3:) a 1 1 ,o:Hi l,fi12 l,G6~ 25 I 1,691 G 27 11~ ' ( C:n•t •IJ J'l\(1'1 ( I I J\:ot ( 'nl o r.u!o. Bt•t·r :::-ipri ll !-1'6 |
