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Show 122 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. CHAPTER XX. Author nearly g'ves Out-Family Portraits-Fresh Courage-Dangerous Situation- Lonely Journey-Darkness-Snow Storm-Arrival at Camp.-" Col. Fremont's Tent' -Interview with Col. Fremont-'' Cache "-Men on Foot-Daguerreotype Appara tus buried in the Snow-Sperm Candles-Men Mounted on Baggage Animals- Seveir River Beaver Dams-Modus Operandi of killing Horses for Food-EntraD Soup-Hide and Bones Roasted-Influence of Privation on Human Passions. AFTEE we crossed the Green River, the whole party* were on foot. The continued absence of nutritious food made us weaker every day. One of my feet was badly frozen, and I walked with much pain and great difficulty ; on this occasion my lameness increased to such a degree, that I was the last man on the trail, and my energy and firmness almost deserted me. Alone, disabled, with no possibility of assistance from mortal man I felt that my last hour had come; I was at the top of a mountain of snow, with not a tree to be seen for miles. Night approached, and I looked in vain in the direction our party had proceeded, for .smoke or some indication that our camp was near. Naught but a desert waste of eternal snow met my anxious gaze- faint and almost exhausted, I sat. down on the snowbank, my feet resting in the footsteps of those who had gone before me. I removed from my pocket the miniatures of my wife and children, to take a last look at them. Their dear smiling faces awakened fresh energy, I had still something to live for, my death would bring |