. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. ROAD. but mainly with the view to prepare for the exigenciesthat we were forewarned were immediately to from this point to the Sacramento Valley, someseventy-five miles, the country was, practically speak-ing, destitute of both feed and water. Over much ofthis distance, the track crept along on the crest ofa very narrow% tortuous divide, or hogback, between buried downcipitous can-than two thou-At one point,came so ob-craggy, beet-that it coulded at all; thus the deflection through a deepzQ b o t t o
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. ROAD. but mainly with the view to prepare for the exigenciesthat we were forewarned were immediately to from this point to the Sacramento Valley, someseventy-five miles, the country was, practically speak-ing, destitute of both feed and water. Over much ofthis distance, the track crept along on the crest ofa very narrow% tortuous divide, or hogback, between buried downcipitous can-than two thou-At one point,came so ob-craggy, beet-that it coulded at all; thus the deflection through a deepzQ b o t t o m of ^compelled tonight, withouttor our stock, ^,the sage-brushfor fuel.^ A DIGGER BELLE.—(FROM A PHO- • , C t. \ TOGHAPH.) ^Pite of the darkness, and by dint of heroic effort, succeeded inpicking his way to the creek^ at the bottom of the can- two s t r e a m sin dark, pre-y o n s, moresand feet deep,the crest be-structed wnthling ledgesnot be follow-necessitatingof the trailhollow, at tlicwhich we w ere Lencamp for the I -feed or waterand with onhof days agoneRockhill, in. 1 Here, where it was bad enough in all conscience to have to remain a singlenight, a month or so later, a party of emigrants, including several families,were snowed in and compelled to remain during the entire winter. Amongthese, were the Reverend William Roberts and family, whose unhappy experi-ences while thus imprisoned I heard detailed from their own lips. 2 Deposits of rich auriferous gravel were afterward discovered on thisstream,—Deer Creek. A TKAMSTKR FN ^-^ yon, and bringing back enough water for our stintedpersonal needs. It fell to Neal to take a day at the whip on this ex-ceptional stretch of road. Now, courage and compos-ure under difficulties had little part in NeaTs composi-tion. He was always quick to yield the whip to someone else when a bad or dangerous piece of road oc-curred. But in this instance he had no alternative. Jhad been taking his relief, as well as my own,
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