. Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870. most excited manner declared that we had discov-ered real nutmegs, and nutmegs of a very superior quality. Hehad no doubt that Yellowstone lake was surrounded by nutmegtrees, and that each of our incrustations contained a veritable nut-meg. In his excitement he even proposed to organize a smallparty to go immediately to the locality to gather nutmegs, and hadan interview with Charley Curtis on the subject of furnishing packanimals for purposes of transportation. When, on the followingday, he ascertained
. Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870. most excited manner declared that we had discov-ered real nutmegs, and nutmegs of a very superior quality. Hehad no doubt that Yellowstone lake was surrounded by nutmegtrees, and that each of our incrustations contained a veritable nut-meg. In his excitement he even proposed to organize a smallparty to go immediately to the locality to gather nutmegs, and hadan interview with Charley Curtis on the subject of furnishing packanimals for purposes of transportation. When, on the followingday, he ascertained the truth, after giving me a characteristiclecture, he revenged himself by good naturedly conferring uponthe members of our party the title, by which he always calledthem thereafter, of Nutmegs. N. P. Langford. Washburn Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. 109 The ^Fan has a distorted pipe from which are projectedtwo radiating sheets of water to the height of sixty feet, re-sembling a feather fan. Forty feet from this geyser is avent connected Avith it, two feet in diameter, which, during r.
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