. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. daybecoming more and more reduced. Many of the em-igrants had provided enough supplies to last thein ayear or two; but they were not long in seeing the pro-. l8 OUR DISSOLVING PAGEANT. prietv, if not the actual necessity, of reducing theirlading as much as possible, with the view both of re-lieving their teams and facilitating their the wagon boxes were in many cases shortened,and tons upon tons of bacon and other articles of theoutfits were converted into fuel, the main purpose be-ing to favor the
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. daybecoming more and more reduced. Many of the em-igrants had provided enough supplies to last thein ayear or two; but they were not long in seeing the pro-. l8 OUR DISSOLVING PAGEANT. prietv, if not the actual necessity, of reducing theirlading as much as possible, with the view both of re-lieving their teams and facilitating their the wagon boxes were in many cases shortened,and tons upon tons of bacon and other articles of theoutfits were converted into fuel, the main purpose be-ing to favor the teams. Fuel was quite an object through that part of theroute now known as Nebraska and Eastern the lower part of the main Platte, the situationas to wood was somewhat like that described in theGrecian fable as to water: So bends tormented Tantalus to drink, While from his lips the refluent waters shrink; Again the rising stream his bosom laves. And thirst consumes him mid circumfluent waves. For a number of days, a heavy belt of cottonwoodswas temptingly near at hand; but not in a single in-stance were we able to reach a trunk, limb, or twigbecause of an intervening section of the river. Weedsand buffalo chips (bois de
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