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Show HOESE STEAKS AND BLANC MANGE. 87 tin cases.)-These two tins I had stowed away in my boxes, being the remains of the six dozen which had been wantonly destroyed at our six weeks camp on Salt Creek. Nobody knew I had them. A paper of arrow root, which my wife had placed in my trunk, for diet, in case I was sick, I had also reserved. These three comestibles, boiled in six gallons of water, made as fine a blanc mange as ever was manged on Mount Blanc. This " dessert" I prepared without the knowledge of Col. Fremont. Our dinner, in honor of "New Tear's Day," consisted, besides our usual "horse soup," of a delicious dish of horse steaks, fried in the remnants of our " tallow candles." But the satisfaction and astonishment of the whole party cannot be portrayed, when I introduced, as dessert, my incomparable blanc mange. " Six gallons of hona fide" nourishing food, sweetened and flavored! It is hardly necessary to say. that it disappeared in double quick time. The whole camp had a share of i t ; and we were all sorry that there was " no more left of the same sort." * * * * * Several days after we came down from the Cocho-tope Pass, it became necessary to ascend a very high and excessively steep mountain of snow. When we were half way up, one of the foremost baggage mules lost his balance, from his hind feet sinking deep in the snow. Down he tumbled, heels-over-head, carrying with him nearly the whole cavalcade, fifty odd in number, several hundred feet to the bottom. It was a serious, yet a most ludicrous spectacle, to witness fifty animals rolling • headlong down a snow |