Life on the plains and among the diggings; being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West . our left; cedars and fir were growing on their sides,and the appearance of trees once more, although at a distance,excited pleasurable sensations, afler having been so long withoutseeing them. Our bacon, flour, meal, sugar and vinegar, wereall gone, and Ave had to take felons fare — hard bread, andwater — (ind this we felt to be much better than
Life on the plains and among the diggings; being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West . our left; cedars and fir were growing on their sides,and the appearance of trees once more, although at a distance,excited pleasurable sensations, afler having been so long withoutseeing them. Our bacon, flour, meal, sugar and vinegar, wereall gone, and Ave had to take felons fare — hard bread, andwater — (ind this we felt to be much better than nothing; in-deed, we were much better off than many others on the Watson had an old cow that the crows had been quarrelingover for a long time ; and thinking a little fresh beef, (save themark !) might be acceptable, he slaughtered her. There couldnot be more rejoicing around the carcass of a camel by the4rabs on the desert, than we evinced around the poor, worout, knocked down brute, and we looked upon it as a sort o: 200 LIFE ON THE PLAINS. God-send, and like to, have surfeited ourselves. Being o-al ofmeat, it seemed as if our stomachs only craved it the more, andour appetites grew sharper at every halt. Distance, CHAPTER XIII. THE SIERRA NEVADA IN SIGHT DRY BED OF A LAKE EXCURSION TO THE MOUNTAINS NARROW ESCAPE FROM AN INDIANS ARROW MOUN-TAIN SCENERY CROSSING THE MOUNTAIN SALT LAKE PITT RIVER A HILL OF MAGNESIA MOUNT SHASTA A NOBLE ACT OF RELIEF MAG-AZINE ROCK HEROIC FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS ADVENTURE AMONG THE INDIANS. AUGUST road continued through the defile for five or six miles,when we came upon a broad track, barren, as usual, over whichwe proceeded ten miles to the first water — a warm springwhich made an oasis. On the highest peaks of the Sierra Ne-vada snow still lingered, and the air felt like autumn more thansummer. As we approached the base of the great mountain,over which we were to pass, we observed the valley, or basins,bega
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