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Show 250 HAPPY ESCAPE- FRAPPB'S CREEK. his horse, a fine roan, lying dead by his side. The scene wad soon explained. When starting after- the buffalo, Mr. Gr. had handed his gun to one of the party, and, drawing a revolver from his holster^ set off in pursuit. In crossing a narrow ravine his horse had stumbled and nearly fallen: the nervous contraction of the fingers caused by^ he endeavour to save himself had occasioned the discharge of the pistol, the ball of wfcich, passing directly through the fleck of the horse, had killed him instantly; and his rider was hurled with great . violence to the ground. I Was much relieved to find that no bones were broken, and that, with the exception of some severe scratches, and a violent jar of the syatein, nothing very serious had happened. It was a narrow escape, however; for a broken bone, so far from surgical aid, would have proved no light matter. After the detention of an hour, Lieutenant G. was mounted upon another horse, and accompanied the train as usual, his ambition for running buffaloes entirely satisfied. * A meridian altitude of the sun gave, for latitude 41° 88' 38" w6. Laramie Peak bearing nortn 29° 30' east, mag. The afternoon'* march was over a beautiful rolling country, lying at the foot of the Medicine- bow Mountains, whence issued several small streams, emerging from narrow cations, their sides clothed with cotton-wood, aspen, and cedars- their windings through the plains to the northward being distinctly traceable by the rich belts of green that clothed their banks. The soil was sandy, and profusely covered with small fragments of white, smoky, and rose quartz, very pure, and in many cases nearly translucent, which had been washed down from the mountains. We made but one march today, and, crossing the east fork of the Medicine Bow, encamped three miles below, upon the banks of Frappe's Greek, one of its tributaries. - The east fork, where we crossed it, is about forty feet wide and one foot deep, flowing with a rapid current and pure limpid water over a pebbly bed. The bottom of this pretty little stream is about a mile wide, well covered with grass, and tolerably wooded with cotton- woods and aspens. The mountain- sides on our right have been well clothed with fir and pine. Frappe'p Greek is so called from the fact of Mr. Frappe having been some years since robbed, at the mouth of this stream, of a band of sixty horses, by a patfty of Aricarrees. Day's march, seventeen miles. Lat. 41° 88' 6". Long. 106° 15' 58". Thursday September 26.- Morning clear. Ther. at sunrise, 48°. A high wind from the south- west. To- day we entered the |