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Show DIGGER SQUAW AND CHILD. 203 was in the same condition precisely, minus the moccasins, with a small buckskin strap over her shoulders in the form of a loop, in which, with its little arms clasped around its mother's neck, sat a female child, four or five yearB old, without any clothing whatever. She was a fine- looking, intelligent little thing, and as plump as a partridge. The mother Beemed to evince much affection for it, and was very much pleased when I threw over its shoulders an old piece of scarlet flannel which had been torn from one of the stations by the wind. I noticed, however, that after they left us, and she thought herself out of our sight, the cloth was fluttering from her own person, and the baby was as destitute as ever. I gave them something to eat, and, what I suspect was more welcome, a hearty draught of water. The poor child was almost famished. The old man was armed with a bow and a few arrows, with which he was hunting for ground- squirrels. June 13- 14.- Moved camp yesterday and to- day, aiming to reach what appeared to be the southern extremity of the spur, at the base of which the line is being run, but were much baffled by shallow water in the attempt. After advancing eight or ten miles, we dragged the boat as near as was possible to the edge of a wide sand- flat, lying between us and the ridge, made a scaffold in the water, and upon it deposited all the provisions, and every thing not needed for immediate use, so as to lighten the boat preparatory to a trip to Antelope Island for water and for another beef from the herd. Sending the surveying party's camp ashore with three men to pitch it and to cook, I started in the yawl, intending to pass between Stansbury's and Oarrington's Islands, which would have made tha course very direct. The wind was fresh from the west, and we bowled merrily along over the dense and briny waves, until, upon approaching the passage between the islands, we grounded upon a sandbar, which seemed to stretch from one island to the other, forbidding, apparently, all farther progress in that direction. We then tried to pass to the north- west of Garrington's island, and, for a time, with every prospect of success, when we suddenly found ourselves embayed in a eul de sac formed by an extensive sand- flat, which stretched from the island an indefinite distance to the westward. There was nothing to be done now other than to coast along the edge of this bar until we should be able to get around it to the northward. Night was approaching; the wind was ahead, and |