The Arkansas advocate., 1835-04-24

! and made fire with cedar, which was tbin- iy scattered about on the bluff banks of the river. The snow round the fire melted, and the mud was soon knee deep. When, during luil iE the storm, Lewis saw up ii the river about ilaif mile grove of cotton wood. and proposed going and encamping there, George answered that 'py Cot, it was better here as there, and he would not CO., Stay, them was the answer of Lewis, and taking his gun and brand of fire, he went on, but had not proceeded more than hun dred yards, when, looking back, he saw Andrews puffing along behind him. They soon made large fire, raked away the snow, and sat out the night by their fire eomfortable-as Lewis says.
 met this storm at the Point of Rocks, about sixteen miles to the north east of the Canadian, at the crossing of the wagon road under the mountain. This Point of Rocks is high ridge of mountain, which, dividing at thi5 place, and iutting out into the prairie in three spurs, ends abruptly, ma king high and imposing appearance in the boundess plain in which they stand. Be- tween these three points two canons* run up into the bosom of the ridge-{by which word canon the Spaniards express deep, narrow hollow among the mountains.) We arrived here on the eighteenth, after the first storm. and seeing indications of another ap- preaching, we encamped early, running our wagons in a straight line across the mouth of the northern canon. Our mess pitched our tent on the south end of the line fronting the line-and we then employed ourselves all the afternoon in cutting and bringing from the sides of the mountain the small rough cedars, which grow there in abundance, and we soon gathered huge piles on the outside of the wagons. Our oxen and the one or two horses yet left, were driven far up the hollow, and about ten of the evening I ascended the side of the hollow and stood guard two hours which standing guard consisted in wrapping myself in blanket and lying down under the lee of a rock. When my guard was of, Schench and myself retired to our tent, and slept out the night under two buffalo robes and two blankets. He, poor fellow Is since dead.
 Two or three hours before daylight the storm commenced with terrific violence, and I never saw wilder or more terrible sight than was presented to us when day came. The wind swept fercely out of the canon, driving the snow horizontally against the wagons, and sweeping onward into the wide prairie, in which a sea of snow seem- ed raging. Objects were not visible at a distance of twenty feet, and when now and then the Hull of the wind permitted us to look further out into the plain, it only gave us wider view of the dim desolation of the tempest. There was small comfort at the fires, immense though they were; for as gust after gust struck the wagons, the snow blew under them and piled around us, while the cold seemed every moment to increase ! Tn intensity. For some time Ill the morn ing we were crowded together in our tent, gave way and we were covered with snow. We then pitched it again in the lee of the wagons, with it's mouth to the prairie. In 1 the evening we all turned out, although the cold was hardly supportable, and cut and carried wood to sheltered place on the l side of the mountain, where our sapient captain had directed us to stand guard l We then stuffed boughs of cedar under the wagon, in the lee of which our mess fire was built, and also built Us a shelter at each end of the wagon, and managed to enjoy some small degree of comfort
 19.-We left the Point of Rocks, in spite of the deep snow and the intense cold, leav- ing also some six or eight oxen frozen to death, and although ran backward and l forward in the track of the wagons all day, still froze my feet before stopped at night. Such was the weather in which Lewis and Andrews lay without blanket or a coat by the fire in the open air. There is but small comfort in the prairie in such storm, even when a man has blan- kets and clothes in abundance; but when he is nearly naked, and sits all the long night shivering by the fire which is the on- 1 ly barrier between him and death, It re- quires the greatest fortitude to bear the feelings of utter misery and desolaton which throng upon the heart.
 Lewis and Andrews travelled this morn ing four or five miles, and stopped in a grove of cottonwood. After making fire, Andrews shot turkey, and called to Lew Is to run and catch 1t. Lewis did so, and was hotly engaged in pursuit of the turkey, when he came upon an old buck, and shot him. Andrews, however, was enraged, and would rather have his turkey as fifty 1 pucks.'
 2o.-This day Lewis left the Canadian, and followed small southern branch of 1t which heads within five miles of the junc- ton of the Demora and Sepellote, (branch- es likewise of the Canadian,) which juno