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Show COL. FEEMONT'S SKILL IN ASTEONOMY. 131 its winding course, and camped at about two o'clock in a valley, with plenty of grass. Deer tracks were visible over the snow, which gave fresh life to the men. The Delawares sallied out to find some. Col. Fremont promised them, as an incentive to renewed exertions, that he would present to the successful hunter, who brought in a deer, a superior rifle. They were out several hours, and Weluchas was seen approaching, with a fine buck across his saddle. He received his reward, an'd we again participated in a dish of wholesome food. We had now triumphantly overcome the immense mountain, which I do not believe human foot, whether civilized or Indian, had ever before attempted, from its inaccessibility; and on the very day and hour previously indicated by Col. Fremont, he conducted us to the small settlement of Parowan, in Little Salt Lake Valley, which could not be distinguished two miles off, thus proving himself a most correct astronomer and geometrician. Here was no chance work-no guessing-for a deviation of one mile, either way, from the true course, would have plunged the whole party into certain destruction. An island at sea may be seen for forty miles ; a navigator makes his calculations, and sails in the direction of the land, which oftentimes extends many miles ; when he sees the land, he directs his course to that portion of it where he is bound; he may have been fifty miles out of his way, but the well-known land being visible from a great distance, he changes his course until ho arrives safely in port. Not so with a winter travel over trackless mountains of eternal snow, across a continent of such immense |