The Arkansas advocate., 1835-04-24


 again; travee1 about ten miles in the whole, and found water in a hollow rock.
 22.-They started, aiming to go to long mountain, covered with timber. which lay in the course. In the afternoon Lewis saw piece of timber to the left, and think ing 1t impossible to reach the tinbered hill, proposed going and encamping in the near est timber. Andrews was, as Lewis ex- pressed if. flor foolng along, and killing an- telope.' They held a long confab, and at length Andrews agreed to go to it. But af- ter turning towards the timber and proceed ing short distance, they saw a smcke in 1t, and Andrews again refused to go thither, alleging that 1t was Indians; and Lewis, enraged, went on without him, saying that he would go thther if there were five hun dred Indians in the timber. Andrews fol- lowed. On arriving at the edge of the timber Lewis stopped, primed his gun anew, and picked the flint. Andrews by this tune had come up, and observed with some surprise, that Lewis did allow to fight X little further and they saw a track. It was that of Chambers. They were within five steps of him before he knew 1t. He had always supposed them dead, but they had seen his track along at intervals, and even that day, going 10 the right of them. Reader, you can imagine their joy at meeting.
 Chambers, as Lewis says. never expect ed to get no place, and had only concluded to keep going till he ded.' He had killed a panther that night-after being encamped here day or two-and all three now feast ed on panther meat.
 23.-Lay by, in a snow storm.
 24.-Meved camp about half q mile to better timber, and encamped again. Our wagons, in the mean time, had crossed the Canadian, and were encamped about twen- ty miles beyond, in grove of pine timber, within seventeen miles of the foot of the first high mountain on the road to Taos.
 25.-The storm ceased, and the weather was intensely cold. This day Lewis and his small party moved two miles, and stop ped for fear of freezing; encarnping on the same little creek which have mentioned before. This day party of us left the wa gons and went into Taos. The blue mist hung about the mountains, and gathered in- to Icicles on our boards and blankets; and the snow was knee deep. The climate in which was born is cold enough, but ne- yer experienced any thing equal to the cold of this day. All our party, except one or two, froze their feet. This was the kind of weather in which Lewis travelled with l pair of linen pantaloons, shirt, deer skin on his breast with the hair in, and one on his back with tho hair out, and a pair of thin moccasins. We this day travelled twenty. five miles, part of which was up one of the highest mountains to be seen hemlock and pine, which the reader will hereafter find mentioned as the encamping ground of Lewis. There were two pack mules ahead of US, and we walked all day in their steps, which was the only path. It was no strange thing that Lewis could not travel.
 26.-Lewis this day travelled about four miles, and encamped in the snow on the head of q hollow in pine timber.
 l 27.-Our adventurers travelled this day about nine miles, and came upon the waters of the Demora, that IS, upon small branch running towards this creek. This day our party from the wagons reached the foot of the last mountain on the road to Taos. 2S.--Lewis this day travelled all day, and gained about four miles. In the evening l they killed an old buffalo, and, finding his flesh too poor to be eaten, they cleansed and ate the entrails; encamping at night on the same branch of the Demora. This day, about ten in the evening, our party reached the still house i'll the valley, within three miles of Taos.
 29.-This day they travelled about eight miles, and in the middle of the afternoon stopped on the main Demora, where, in a few minutes, Lewis killed two black tailed deer. 1 have often mentioned these deer. They are larger than the deer which are found in the United States, and in fact their skin is sometimes so large that it might be mistaken for an elk-skin. They are of a darker colour than our deer. more clumsily made, and not so fleet; neither is their flesh so good, but their skins are much bet l ter.
 30. This day they lay by.
 DEc. 1.-Drectly after starting, they came upon the road at the junction of the Demora and Sepellote, which the reader will find mentioned hereafter, as the place whence l went into San Miguel. Had Lewis continued up the Demora to the old 1 village, and thence through the pass of the mountains, he would have found broken trail, and would have gone in with much more ease. He wished to do so; An- drews, however, who had been in Taos be- fore, and in fact had wife there, assured 1 him that they could not go in that way for