The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-07-08

ihsustss thet tncy icit tntS camp (not posses
sing greater force than the whites) without
coming to blows.
The distance from the Aricoras TO this
rhounlain is about $50 miles, over an cx-
,remely rugged tract, by no means furnishing
sufficient supply of water but during tho
tweD,y-eight days they were getting TO the
base of the mountain, they wcro only il ve-
ry few instances without abundance of Butia-
loc meat.
Three days took them over to the plains Of
Mad river (,he harhc given the Big Horn ~
bove tho Mouutain) which followed Tor
number Of days they LEFT it whcro il was re-
duccd 10 thirty yards in width, and the same
evening reached the banks Of the Colorado
or Spanish river. Finding ilocks Of Buffalos,
ut the end of the third days travel on thd
strcam, the party passed week in drying
Bufraloe meat for the residue of the voyage,
ss in all probability those were tho last sni-
mails of the kind they would meet With.
From this camp, in one day, they crossed ~
dividing mountsin and pitched their sen,s on,
Hohack's Fork OF Mad river, where Il was
near $50 feet broad, and in eight deys moro
having passed several stupendous rjdgcs,they
encampcd ia the vicinity Of the establishments
made by Mr.. Henry in 10, ono fork about
gentleman having travelled from the main
Missouri about 900 miles in ilfi,-four slays.
\ Here abandouinr Axr ho-scs. the nar,Is
constructed cpnocs,. and descended the Snake
or Ky-eyc-ne m river (madc by the junction
OF Mad river, south Of Hcory's fork) 400
miles, Ia the course Of which they were o.. /.
blircd BY the Intervention Of impassable
rapids 60 make number uf poriaacs, til at
length. they found the river. confined between
gloomy prccinices at least two hundred feet
perpendicuiar, whose banks for .hc most ,,e+s
were washed by this turoulcn, t,caru, which
for ,hirty miles was consinual succsssiop %
falls, cascades ard rapids. Mr.. Crooks cano6
nad spill, and upsc, IN the middle Of rapids
hy which one man was drowned, named An.
tonic CIunpin, aud that rcntlcmon saved hiusi.
self only BY extretac cxcr,ion in swimming.
From tho rcpra,ed losses By the upscti;ng OF
canoes our stock OF provisions wcro now re-.
duccd to bare suf1icicncy for Kyc days, toi
tally ignorans Of the country where they wesc,
and unsuccessful in meeting any Of (he ns!
tives from whom they could hcpo for inlorA
nation.
Unable 70 proceed by water. Msssrs. n
Kcnxis, M'Clensu, and Need, set out in dif-
lcrcpt directions ipclining down the sivof. for
the purpose Of enllng lndians and lnuyinc
horses. Mr.. Crooks vita few nen revdrn4
cd to Henry's fork Tor those they had left,
while Mr.. Hunt remained with the main body
Of the men in trapping beaver tor their suut
port. Nj. e. 6ndinE The distance mucl.
greater by land than they had conse mplatcd,
returned az the end of three days. where,
waiting fvc more expecting relief from be-.
low, the near approach Of winter mace them
determine on dcrosi,ing oil sopct tlluoos ar,i.
cles and proc ed,ug on ioo.. Accordingly q
the 10th Of Novrmbcr, Messrs. Hunt aud
Crooks set on, each with Is ncu, one party
on the north and Tie other on Tire south side
Of the river.
Mr.. Nunt was sortuhs,e In finding Indians
With abundance Of salmon and some horses,
but Mr.. Crooks saw but fcw, and IN genCtul