. Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont . roundabout, and the old Indian haranguing, we pre-sented a group of very serious faces. February 5. The night had been too cold tosleep, and we were up very early. Our guidewas standing by the fire with all his finery on;and, seeing him shiver in the cold, I threw onhis shoulders one of my blankets. We missedhirn a few minutes afterwards, and never sawhim again. He had deserted. While a portion of the camp were occupiedin bringing up the baggage to this point, theremainder were busied in making sledges andsnow-shoes. I had dete
. Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont . roundabout, and the old Indian haranguing, we pre-sented a group of very serious faces. February 5. The night had been too cold tosleep, and we were up very early. Our guidewas standing by the fire with all his finery on;and, seeing him shiver in the cold, I threw onhis shoulders one of my blankets. We missedhirn a few minutes afterwards, and never sawhim again. He had deserted. While a portion of the camp were occupiedin bringing up the baggage to this point, theremainder were busied in making sledges andsnow-shoes. I had determined to explore themountain ahead, and the sledges were to be usedin transporting the baggage. February 6. Accompanied by Mr. Fitzpat-rick, I sat out to-day with a reconnoitring party,on snow-shoes. We marched all in a single file,trampling the snow as heavily as we could. Cross-ing the open basin, in a march of about tenmiles we reached the top of one of the peaks, tothe left of the pass indicated by our guide. Farbelow us, dimmed by the distance, was a large.
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