History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . t labor and difficulty, and after getting a little beyond thesummit on the other side, we struck a little stream of water that seemed torun westward, and we judged that we had got over the divide, and thoughtthat by following the stream as well as we could, it would lead us down thewesterly slope of the mountain. Meantime we had eaten the last of our beeffrom our cattle, and we were reduced to the necessity of killing our horsesand mules, and living on them. Historical Facts, MS. For continuation ofthe nariative after crossing the Sierra se
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . t labor and difficulty, and after getting a little beyond thesummit on the other side, we struck a little stream of water that seemed torun westward, and we judged that we had got over the divide, and thoughtthat by following the stream as well as we could, it would lead us down thewesterly slope of the mountain. Meantime we had eaten the last of our beeffrom our cattle, and we were reduced to the necessity of killing our horsesand mules, and living on them. Historical Facts, MS. For continuation ofthe nariative after crossing the Sierra see Hist. Cal., this series. PASSAGE OF TOE EMIGRANTS. » vatinii, ilividii»f( tlic huccosjsive plainft, while ill tilt liMUliitaiii passes were seen larj^e cedars Th S1u»nIu)IuS lure •,MK()Untereil st<»le horses, eau«,lit liare,in whose skins they sometimes sou«^ht to cover them-Bclves, ami hiicKlled almost naked o\ i-r a s«i;^e tire. Followinj^ a lu»llow, into some meadows, ontho 21)th thu party came to a willow grove, where they. made camp. Next day they saw a stream enter acanon which they could not follow, but douhtetl notit flowed into Mary Lake. On both sides the moun-tains showed often stupendous and curious-lookingrocks, which at several ])laces so narrowed the valleythat scarcely a was left for the camp. It was a FREMONTS EXPEDITIOX. 57 singular place to travel through, shut up in the earth,a sort of chasm, the little strip of grass under our feet,the rough walls of bare rock on either hand, andnarrow strip of sjky above. New Years day, 1844, saw them continuing downthe valley between a dry-looking black ridge on theleft, and a more snowy and high one on the grass was gone, and a finely powdered sand andsaline efflorescence covered the ground. Next daythey crossed south-easterly the dry bed of a largemuddy lake. In a dense fog which scattered the menand animals, on the 3d of January, the search forOgden Kiver was continued. Our situat
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