Oregon and California in 1848 . the head. Salvadore was dispatched inthe same manner immediately after. Mr. Eddy didnot see who fired the gun. The flesh was then cutfrom their bones and dried. Mr. Foster and wife, andMrs. Pike encamped at The Place of Graves, Mrs. Fosdick, Mrs. McCutcheon, andMr. Eddy encamped about two hundred yards inadvance. They never encamped again with Foster ;and some one of their number was always awake, toavoid being surprised. Mr. Eddy made his supper upon grass. Althoughthey saw deer in great numbers every day, and some-times very near them, yet such
Oregon and California in 1848 . the head. Salvadore was dispatched inthe same manner immediately after. Mr. Eddy didnot see who fired the gun. The flesh was then cutfrom their bones and dried. Mr. Foster and wife, andMrs. Pike encamped at The Place of Graves, Mrs. Fosdick, Mrs. McCutcheon, andMr. Eddy encamped about two hundred yards inadvance. They never encamped again with Foster ;and some one of their number was always awake, toavoid being surprised. Mr. Eddy made his supper upon grass. Althoughthey saw deer in great numbers every day, and some-times very near them, yet such was the extreme weak-ness to which Mr. Eddy was reduced, that it was im-possible for him to take accurate aim at them. Hestaggered like a drunken man ; and when he came toa fallen tree, though no more than a foot high, he hadto stoop down, put his hands upon it, and get over itby a sort of rolling motion. They were under thenecessity of sitting down to rest about every quarterof a mile. The slighest thing caused them to stumble. Oregon and California. 151 and fall. They were almost reduced to the helpless-ness of little children in their first essays to walk. Thewomen would fall and weep like infants, and then riseand totter along again. January 9.—They proceeded during the day overa rocky country, and encamped at night, after a dayof immense toil and suffering. Mr. Eddy gatheredsome grass near by, to sustain, in his wasted body, thealmost extinguished spark of life. On the following morning they staggered forward,and toward the close of the day, which seemed inter-minable, they arrived at an Indian village, which inthis country is called a ranclieria. The Indians seem-ed to be overwhelmed with the sight of their as they are for their cruelty and thievishpropensities, they now divided their own scanty sup-ply with them. The wild and fierce savages who oncevisited their camps only for the purpose of hostility;who hovered around them upon the way; who shotth
Size: 1312px × 1904px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectcaliforniadescriptio
