The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-06-29

Unable to proceed by water, h.essra. NI'ESenze,
Mcclellan and Reed, set in different dire ton,
,nc!nng down the river. for the purpose OF 6odng
Indians and hur> ng horses Mr. Crooks with n few
men returned To Hemy's fork for those they had left
whe Mr. Hunt remained with the main bod, at the
men an trapping hsaycr for the.c supaort. Mr.. G.
finding the distance mueh greater by land than they
hsd contemplated, returned at c end o three dGys,
where waiting ave more expecting relief from be-
'ow, the near approach Of winter male them deter
mine dcposng ali sup, rhsous articles aud pro.
eeedin. or foot. Accordingly on the 10th uf No
ve'nber, hiessrs. Hunt aud Crooks get each with
III men, AIRY on the north and another on the
Sou'i, ade oi tie river
Mr. Hunt WAS Fortunate in finding Indians with
! abundance of salmon and some horses, hut MIR.
Crooks but few, aud in ssnerai too miserably
poor IL afford his party much JisistanSe thirteen
days travel brought the latter 10 high range of
mountains, through which the river forced passage,
a"d the bank being their only guide, the, STILL hv
climbing over points OF rocky ridges, proce'iu into
the sti cam, kept il possible, 'tl the
ing of the 81 December rnpasssble precip,ces of
immense height. put an end to all hcpSs at follow
ing the margin OF This wster-course, which here
not more than 40 yards wide, ran with iacredihie
velocity, and was, wtha., foamngiy tumutuOus,
THAT even had the opposite bank been fit tor VI cir
purpose, attempt AZ rafting would have been perfect
madness, as they could only have the iRducement sf
ending IN watery grave series ct hartish,ps and
Frvstios, to which the most hardy aud de.e mined
o. the human race must have found himself insds
quste. Fhey attempted TO climb the rnocntsn..
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a day, they diseov, red 20 their that they
wen, not hal way 10 the summit, ard the al
ready too deep for in their eInacated state to
proceed IA Their
Regs,iDg III. river bauk, they returned I'D s. o.
: the tbir'! day met wih Mr.. Hunt and his party
with one horse proceeding downwards; a canoe
was soon ms os horse hide, and in il transported
what meat thy could spare t. MIR. CrOOkss stare
ing followers, who. for the fret Is DAYS sitter ear
! ing tue place of deposit, had subsistsd on half a
meal LII tweny-'oir hours aud in the last nine day
had eat ouij o"e beaver, dog few Wild cherries
and old mockasin seals. having travelled during
these twenty days at least $50 miles For the
next four days, both parties continued on mp the re-
ver, without any other support than what little rose
buds and cherries they could Hnd /; but here they
luckily fell in with some Snake Indians, from whom
they cot I'VE horses, giving them three guns and
! some other articles for the same. Starvation had
bereit Is. Provost OF his senses eutirely and, on
seeing tie horse te.h on the opposite shore, so
as,tSted IN crossing skin canoe, that he unset it,
| and was unfortunately drowned. From hence, MIR.
| Hunt went on to camp of Subsidiaries about so
| 'nues above, where, procuring a few horses and
gnide, he set cut for the main Columbia across the
mountains ia tn south west, leaving the river where
II entered the range and on il Mr. Crooks and Ave
| men unable to tCareL Mr.. ~. lost a Canadian nam
ed Carriers, by starvation, before he met the Shy
ey-io-sa Indians IN the Coiumbis plains from whom
g tt'ng supply of provisions, h" soon reached the
main river, which he descended in CANOES sud arri
'ed' without any further loss, at Astoria, in the
month OF Fehruarv.
-hSssIh II NN'lLe. vi OlellAn 2nf heed ne1 uni
| ted their parties the Snake river mountains
through winch they treyeicd twenty da-s 10 the
! Mn'pot river, :ubsisting an allowance by TO
means adequste to the tolls they underwent daily /;
and "a the smslness of their number (Which was in
all eleven) they attribute their euccess in getting
with lie To where they found some wild horses
they soon after reached the fork caed by cautains
L-wis aud Clarke, KookoosSe; went down I,cw;s's
partly and the Columbia wholly by water, without
any misfortune except the upscttne In rapid Of MIR
M'Cieiian's canoe, and although il happened on the
hrst ay Of the year, yet hy great crertion, theV
oung to the canoe Gll the e,he-s came TO their as
sistsnce Nakins their escape with the loss of some
rih-s they reached astoria early in January.
Three at the Ave men who remained " RI Mr..
Crooks, afraid of perishing by want left h1a in Fs.
hruary on a small river the road BY which Mr.
Hrnt had passed in quest Of Indians, aud have not
since betn heard of Nr. c. had followed Mr. E's
track IN the snow fnr seven days, but coming to {
low prairie he lost every appearance of the tIseaA
aud was compelled to pass the remaining part os
winter ia the mountains, suhsistiag sometimes ca
beaver and horse meat, and their skins and st
others on their aueccss in finding ronts Finally,
on the last 1f March the ether only Canadia being
snabie to proceed, left With lodge Of Shnsbo.
nes and Mr. g.. with John Day, fndin. the snow
sufficiently Jmnished, undertook from Indiaa infor
nation, to cron the last ridge. which thew happi,y
effected. an! reached the banks of the Colombia hy
the middle OF ApriI-where, in the beginning of
May they fell in with Mes.rs Steuart hayinc been
few days before stripped of every thing they noe.
scssed by band of villains near tho falis On the
10Th Of Msy, they arrived safe at Astcris the p,in
cipal establishment OF the Pacific Fur Cctntany
within Il miles OF Cape Disappointment.