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Show 218 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. Seveir River, as was formerly supposed, but is one of the tributaries of the Great Colorado, emptying into the Gulf of California, while the Seveir River empties into Seveir Lake. We camped on this romantic stream, and at night I took a refreshing bath in its crystal waters. 2ith.-At an early hour this morning, our camp was visited by a number of Paiede Indians; they were almost in a state of nudity ; we supplied them with food, and some few clothes. One of them, who walked lame, said, he was shot by an exploring party, about ten years ago- corresponding with Col. Fremont's first expedition over this country. With those Indians Col. Fremont had several skirmishes, and I have no doubt, he was wounded, in attempting to waylay that expedition. One of the men told him, I was an American, in contradistinction to Mormon. " Ha ! " said he, pointing to his wound, " I got that from Mericats "-he looked very savagely at me, and I have no doubt, would have taken delight in making me a target for his arrows : if I had told him I was one of Col. Fremont's men, I am pretty sure I would have had to give him satisfaction. This man followed our camp on foot several days afterwards. We left camp at eight o'clock, our road lay through scenery similar to that presented yesterday. We crossed the Santa Clara, six times to-day, making twelve crossings, in as many miles. Box, elder, cottonwood, honey locust, grow luxuriantly all along the river, about a mile from the end of the valley where we left it. There is a romantic fall of water on this stream. The fall is twelve feet; on the opposite side of the road there is a natural cave, formed in the red sandstone, which overhangs the road, of nearly fifty feet in depth, |
