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Show ------ ------- - -- ty·S(;!Vl!D lilld u JmJf llliles of' hurd lliUl'Citillg we rcncbed tbe spr ings which had oeen ·o' anxiously covctad tlnri ng- the duy , an<l found ourselves "as well us coultl be ex· JHileteu under the circumstuncl't<." 'l'bewe Rprings IJurst from the eust f'ide of o. higb laole ruouotui D, l11lVing u ctmicul pcuk mounted upon its 8Uiltfll iL at tlt i!:l point, wbicl~ is visible from 'Nal'ller's mountain- fifty miles distant. The largest Of these Bprings leupSI directly Ollt Of the solid rock or the mouutain 's Hide, well up towurus it~ summit, aud nil fluw tiJrough a grnAsy ravine wide enougiJ for the pussage of wagoua, to the desert below. ln com· plirnent to our guiJe we named then1 .. lsnuc's Springs." Iu addition to good wnter, there iR ltCrc an ubuudauce of cxcl•llcut. bunch-gmtts, growing npou th <:l tJurrow steppes tbut riSlc one above another, onJ form tbe mountu.in's side, 1u1d also ou the s1:1mm it of tile mountain itself. 'J'he Indians who bad so long and zeal· ously watched o.n<.l guurdcd n~;, abnuuoncd their post ut Guano Luke, not huviog fol. lowed or preceded us pnst thut poi11t. We were now clearly iu the couutry of' the so-cnlled Piutes, o.ll of thc·m claiming to be " Winnamuccu 's papooses," but over whom thut chief exercises no upparent coo. trol either for good or ev il. Tbo Iudinns of this region, culling thenesclves Piut<.:s, nre evidently outside bn11ds of Suukes 'baviog no recognized chief, uud haviug their habitation unywhere between W nrner's mountain on the north, the old South· ern Oregon l~ migrnut rond on the south the Humboldt on tho east, nnd the Sicrrn' N evnda mountains on the west. From l saac's Springs we procce<lell in a soutbel'ly direction, iu the :lame iutcrwiua.· ' ble lil'ld of ~~~~S'l', but l>y 11 gnH.ltud Juscell ~ to Pueblo \' ulll'Jj putse;ing down a wide Clll\011, having in lllUIIY pl ~lces high p<:r· pl'ttJiculut· wnllH ou either sidu , nod ent l! rl'd tL !intull tr ibutury vulley of the Pueblo w,~tL'l'l'd by a. creek putting in h·om the' nortltwc~t, through n deep cbusm in tbe high tnb le t.hnL encircles tho vnlley, except ut its l:l~l uthern t•xtr<c!mity, aJ.Jd breulcing ut its northcm suflicient to admit of out· c·nt rnnce. This creek ev idently has its source iu llll iiH! ull<ulinc lake, pcrhups in tbe unuseons Gnuno, nnd sli!!b tly cooled nnd prounl!ly otherwise improved by fulling UOWII }JI'l'Cipici"S, nnu I'UilOing througb sbudy cllu:;ms. UraHs ulong its banl<a, fro(Jl whe l'l~ it eut crs the valley down a dstancci of auont four milcH where it siulcs, is pleuty, nnd for the r<'giou is of a very good qunl ity. 'l'he surfaee of the vulll'Y is very uncvcu, but st1·ikingly uniform in its elevations nnd Ul'prcssbns, resem bling the waves of n large luke suddenly stopped after " stettdy gale. ln other words, it aeema to have bceo cut entirely too wide for the plncc it covers, nnu then to huve had its side, !ir~ t pressed uowo iusi<.le of its volcanic wnlls, lcuviiJg tho rest to fall in anypositiou it might. 'l'he s urfac~ of some of these waves ure moist anu clltSLi~, yielding readily to a. gen tle pressur·o o{ the foot, and resum. in ~ their slutpc when it is tuken off. All of tbem- nnd they would number by the thousand- runge pnrallel wi tb the walls on either side, north and south ; autl as we bud to crosij tbem diugonnlly in entering Pueblo Valley, we were forcibly reminded of the decidedly unpleasant sensati one we bud felt when voyaging on the Curl'ibbean Seo. o.fter a severo gnle. Tbe Indians of this region are not ver·y numerous, no:- are they very sby of white ~. 0\VY ITEl~~ KX Pl~JHTtON. ·- _ _ 17 n...t...e ...a._.... ....._'_ l'l_ll'_y ~ -J- 1 · tl -t-ttot·c- mudn;.!-;H ~~~~~ reason, us the womnn h tl VC hi ug p ll CC~ Il l lC' tiiV· erns and t·eccsses or the surronnJ i ng mnuu. is the on ly purty n,ljudgt.:!<l gu i 1 ty' no<l trLins, to which Uwy retireJ CVl' I'Y night AP('('tly dvuth, ortcn liy burning o.live, is while we wet·e in th ~ it· viciu ity, retmn ing her portion. lo the valley ngaiu in the moruing. aud the Virtue is ltrre mentioned o.s it is gcn· rn~tll'S oceu~ionally visiting our cnmr. Onn el'lllly un<krstoo<l umong ehrh;tiC\ns, noll of these calling him~el l' .. IJumlJCJidt ,J im'' not in th l' srn:c in which it is practiced ...._11 borrowPu unme, duubtlesr;- could speuk by the ltHl ians of the western frouticr, or eorne l~nglis I1 . JI e I.t u d u f.1 11e 1>1 11' I ud e l (lltt'".. <)tlt", r bnr~.~·, nr i nm:; . A monr"r' nendy all the ln· made rifl l-!, which ue wus very unx ious to diun trib1•s of Oregon nnd northern Cui · sell-a. very good indica I ion thul he und ifomirL, murder, mpine, robbery nod theft, hie comrndes <lid not wi!llt to be cou iuercd urc virtnes of tho highC'st order; and in bclligercntfl, aud treu.ted u<:cor<lingly. Thl'Y proportion to t!le nnmltm· of inAtances in knew nothing wht\tcvcr of the relutive which th cs~ hu.,·c been practiced, or strict· vul"e of gold atHl silver, one of them, u~ y observrd, i~ the lnditLil C'Xal tc>1l in his we nfterwunls lcLtrt~ed, hl\vi ng giv1>n a flvCJ trihr. \Vith the L'iutes, Snakes, KhLmathR, th .. llar gold ;Jiece for u tlollllt' lllld ll quurter !\Iodocs uno Pitt riv<'rS, it is virtuous to in si lvt.r, evidently ull the 1110ney thul uny ~eize uml ravish the women of tribes with of them had, a.ml wtlS greatly delighted whonl th<'y urc n.t wnr, often nmong themwitp his burguin, huving th ree piec~:~ of ~e lves, nnll to rPtoitl or s II them ond their fliOn t>y im1teud of one, ut tt1 cuch of the children us ezlttvrs. The acts which follow thr~:e mudt Jurget· thau the one, he oel'tlled the capt nrc or w0men, under these circ~m to th iuk himself soUtethiug of o. cnpitu l i~t, Rtuncci:l nre rcglll'(h:d ns the grcntcst tnbul nod of much more c:onseq II L' llCC i u his tribe i n ~ nl t t hut en n be olfl! rCd, nnd the strong· th11n before his succ1:::s us u. oroker. CHt mod' of dl•clnring war. 'l'bis custom 'J'baugh nppel\riug evt•t·y wny f't·icnuly is doubt h'ss the true sotnce of tl1e virtue with our wl10le force prescnL they wore en· mentioned ns being so Rever(>ly observed by tirely too inquisitive to be o.grecnh le to· P inlc~, il' oot of the co.ses ot rnre chriR· • warus some of the commu.nu thllt huu lH:eu tinn virtue AO oflen bonstrully chronicleJ 15ent iA ud vu.uce witll two of the CLlltle as bc.:ing posscs~eu by tl.le 1lusl<y maidet.IS truin11 t,} ufford better wutering fuc ilitieH of the forPst. Among the Klumo.ths, chllat I snuc's Spl'ings for those who were iu dren of Rlrwe p"reut~ whc:>) it mny be the rcur. They tlre ooubtl~·ss u~~~~~sins hy thought, Atnnd in the wny of the mother 's nuture, bnt are too cowu.rdly to attuck more r>rofitnhlc prostitution, or sale, are o.ny party of armed white JTil!U uuless by killed with aA little c0mpunction as we 15\l rprise. 'l'here is one vi rtt\e however, tho.t these Indiana arc said to possesH, thnt tho lmli· a.ns generally of the Pucitic Uoast do uot. 'l'bey do not prostitute their t-:qaawtl nor al· low them to turu pro~ tilutes themselves. In pm1i ;hing tlle ofl'cnse however, tl.H'Y mnoifest woulrl feel at killing a venomous repti le. ChilJren too, who oro not slaves, eell their widowEd motherf! for any purpf>se lor which tb!'y can find "' purchnser. Passing at·ounu the south end of Pueblo monntnin into Pueblo vRlley, we changed our course up the snrnc towards t |