. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - were migrat-ing nomad-fashion, being generally mounted and car-rying with them their families, man\- ponies, and alltheir equipments of the camp, the chase, and the war-path. The mounted braves; the fantastic trappings;the squaws with their burdens; the motlev households;the pack-ponies; the lodge-poles dragging from thesaddles of the ponies; the platform or litter here andthere erec:ted on these poles to convey the sick, disa-bled and infirm; the whooping \aqueros driving the. n?u rt A nisTi-^icssiur.
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - were migrat-ing nomad-fashion, being generally mounted and car-rying with them their families, man\- ponies, and alltheir equipments of the camp, the chase, and the war-path. The mounted braves; the fantastic trappings;the squaws with their burdens; the motlev households;the pack-ponies; the lodge-poles dragging from thesaddles of the ponies; the platform or litter here andthere erec:ted on these poles to convey the sick, disa-bled and infirm; the whooping \aqueros driving the. n?u rt A nisTi-^icssiur. 45^ loose ponies,—all combined to form a most interestin<;-panorama, and one the like of which is ne\ er a^ainto be witnessed in the wilds ot this countr\. We now at once entered upon a sterile, volcanicplain. According- to recent scientific investio-ations,this plain was a vast lake of molten lava within a com-paratively recent o-eoloo-ical period. (GeologicalSketches at Home and Abroad, A. Gieke. ) I accident-ally came upon one of the craters, through which thissea of liquid tire had once been fed from beneath theearths crust. The aperture was in the form of a long-seam or fissure, with irregular walls of black slag-rock,the lips of which were tiush with the general face ofthe plain. I dropped a pebble into the opening, and itwent rattling down, bounding from side to side, till thesound, decreasing in volume, was wholly lost in un-known depths. We were now on the main Oregon emigrant trail;but instead of following this northward to Fort Ha
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