The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-12

view OF what they suffered will show at what cost, in
point of suffering alone these discoveries have been
prosecuted, and what kind OF stuff the men were formed
of who, afterwards, dehed and conquered California
The same letter from Mr. Henry King, thus speaks OF
their suerngs between the Great Salt Lake and the base
OF the Sierra Nevada and along the base of that noun
tain, in their seventy days struggle to conquer deserts
SHOWS, and mountains:
son from the Great Salt lake 10 Trout lake, ta
e oo' OF lns 'siaa neshu1,1 we ere on h .o
the Trout lake, had only small cattle leit and very
o1 ANA M' onan WE soon asd p our cattle and
had old horses and mules which were very
two out OF ours) atoot tor twenty days before we cam
togame and, after resting twenty days in the mountains
quenily without anything to eat, and often without wafer
Whilst we laid by in the mountains Were once -four
says. My hip bones beeame so sharp that could not
sleep for several nights We the trip twenty
backs, and scarcely able get along without anything
,eln Me had great treat on Christmas ni ny H"vR
and has one hearty meal and can tell you hefe was re-
ioic.lg thru might
afterwards conquered CALIFORNIA; specimen only; Tor
they had plenty OF the mixed up with the IN
gredent OF savage warfare. But they did not complain
nor muiny against their leader, nor ask to turn back;
but gay, daring, and obeden they went wherever his
spirit led and after conquering nature, felt 1t to be
recreation on the shores Of the Pacific to conquer the
the borders of Oregon the episode OF the Californian
conquest was not enacted until June; but the writer
would seem to have had some suspicion OF what was TO
happen when the last sentence OF his letter. he says
9" think it very likely that we will return YET and go
down through California, peaceaby we can, forcbly
we must" Three months afterwards they were in the
City of the Angels and the governors of California were
in the road to Mexico"
The map of Oregon and California is not to be limited
to the materials collected by Colonel Fremont but is to
contain every thing authentic on the subject, so as to
present the most complete view of that great region
which has yet been laid before Intended to be
accurate in PARTICULAR il will be scrupuousy SO IN
! 8, tbo,rra Inv of nh rinal
places. Indians, and all people in their primitive or
early sate give significant names-names descriptive
of the place, or commemorative OF some event. AS
mere matter of taste we would always prefer to
have these correctly spelled, and then meaning
thus preserved and known rather than have them meta
morphosed into some strange vernacular OF analogous
sound and senseless import AS matter of taste
we would prefer the right word and the right meaning
but it often happens that questions OF great moment
! tions-receive eucdaon from the analogies OF Ian
guages, and especially from the names bestowed upon
places So it happens in the present case Inc pens OF
the origin OF the American population, and especially
that of the Aztec established in Mexico some cenu
res before Cortes arrived there Their own history at
tribued to them far northwest origin and an emgra-
ton from that quarter. Humboldt assigns them two
abodes before they arrived at their final residence: one
forna the other on the Rio ella Reeo Heelah) fork OF
the same river, and quotes names and words from the
writings of the Jesuit missionaries In the Alta California
to show them to be of Aztec origin and an evidence OF
Mexican emigration. Mr. Franchtre a French gentle
man in the employment of Mr. Asor, and who wrote the
best account OF his colony on the Columbia, did the same
thing with respect Of places in Oregon. and shows
the frequent recurrence of the Aztec sylables ia dI an
&C. Fremont did the same and in the pronunciation OF the
Indians often detected the Aztec combination OF letters IN
their cultural and clucking articulation, where no syp
tom OF such sound or combination conld be distinguished
in the vernacuar substitute Of our American pioneers
! The name Of the famous 1lamGm Lake. and llamai
Indians is an instance Of this kind The Americans call
if Kameta word which refers itself to particular
language; while Klamath is SO purely Aztec, that It
haroa Tho hIrI
holds the city of Mexico the final abode OF the Aztec
conqueros. The same OF the river WahfdhnGth called
by the settlers Wolamei, Wamette or WHhamef and
of many Others All these names, and there are great
number of them will lose their own identity and be lost
to historical investigation, unless accurately preserved by
the first explorers Colonel Fremonts attention was
much turned in that direction In his map and report
already published, he has given the aboriginal names as
he caught them from the mouths OF the resident Indians
In this third expedition, it his design to pursue that
branch of Investigations and even TO return to the United
States across the raditonary line of Aztec emgaon,
and TO examine for himself those ruins OF caas gra"des
(large houses) which have their locality on the RIO
ella and the Colorado, in the great map Of Humboldt
The unexpected Intervention of war may have frustra
ted this part OF his plan but the preservation OF aborg
map Of Oregon and California, proposed to be COM
Piled besides its character of science and originality will
have the further merit Of the proper spelling OF proper
names III
! Compilation only is now proposed: the publication
will await the return OF Colonel Fremont and will re-
oeye the additions Of T exploration NGnT
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narrative nor of maps, has had the benefit of his person
| al supervision. Impatient for new labors he has not
been able to brook the delays of printing and engraving
and has FASTENED off to make discoveries, leaving
il to the government to dispose of the first as it pleased
| lie claimed no right OF property in anything-has not
even seen in print his second report the map which
accompanies it-and has not copy of any part of
his own abors except presented to him by myself or
other friends He has abored in the interests of science
dsinerestedy and enthusiastically and with just con-
cepOn of the elevation and grandeur OF his pursuit.
far ranscendng the ordinary pursuits OF life, military
fame not excepted In letter to his family, from the
base of the Rocky Mountains in his outward voyage OF
the present expedition when about to that lofty
wall and to disappear beyond it for long time, possibly
ed results of this, his browning expedition and placed
them far above ANYTHING that any other pursuit could
achieve for him. The episode OF the conquest OF Cal
iforna has deprived him of part of his expected hon.
ors but that episode has had the use among other
of showing that consummate military leader may be
found in modest lover of science, and in the person OF
a young man who places the honors of science above
the fame of arms.
COPY Of Henry Kings letter from California, Arch 80,
1916, Posniarrd Independence, Missouri September D.
| CANE ON DEER CREEK,
UrpER CALIFORNIA, March 30, 1916.
DEAR PARENTS | embrace this opportunity to write you
few lines. / know whether this will reach you |
least month later than this viii probably reach YOU,
and then tell OF my trip aud then shall be apt
postpone it until the long winter nights, shall have some
very tough yarns tell but true, nevertheless shall
Notwithstanding good deal of hardship After leaving
Bens Fort, travelled pretty swirl rate, and very
soon the animals began to give out Il rode down three
horses from Westpod nearly the lower point the Cor
30,