The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-15

glance backward forward.
Dr. Do. very Young manhood Fremont was
In training for the life of an explorer He
wa. ma assistant to the government engi-
ue,r- who recOnuoiteryd the Cherokee
country Of Tennessee and the Carolinas in
anticipation of war, and became at home in
wild countries among border men and say
age He saw the uututored Indian in
bloody trays endure slashing and stabbing
from keen knife blades with the stoicism
Of schuolboys in SNOWFALL battles What
was wasted valor for them would be glori-
Gus courage when displayed by white men
for noble purpose. His outdoor life and
exercise Injured his body to exposure, while
his application TO technical problems fitted
him to he a leader
At 25 years OF age he had ridden in
charge on a buffalo herd and fought
mounted with enraged bulls in the crush
OF frautic, trampling horned beasts. At that
age, in his earliest expeditions, he would Sc
lect three or four men Of his company and
travel ahead among savages, taking the
hardest route ON the theory that possible
disaster should be shared by the fewest
mum Der When at Fort Laramie in his first
expedition. in 1912. friendly Indians warned
him not to set out across the hostile lands
between the Platte and the Rockies.
Their predictions, though well meant and
apparently well founded. were ignored, and
the expedition numbering but 20 men went
ahead, meeting no hOstiles but nearly per-
ishing from starvation. The grasshoppers
had stripped the country of forage and the
buffalo had fed to other pastures. When
the party reached Wind River mountains
both men and animals were exhausted by
hardships and want of food. But Fremont
tn iah Z
glance over the region which gives birth to
the four great rivers of the west--the Col
orado. Columbia, Missouri and Platte
The men subsisted wholly upon dried
buffalo meat cooked in tallow. Hostile
Blac6feet roamed the hills and guarded
the passes. a palisade and breastwOrk
was built in a dense grove, and the men
most in need of rest We're left there, while
the leader and fourteen Of the hardest, in
GLIDING Carson, the doughty guide, tOiled
up the mountain sleeps. The lofty peaks
were deceptive, aud the bold traveller.
found the way barred by lakes which com
PEELED them to make wide detours; hug,
powders barricaded the mountain slopes
and deep and impossible chasms yawnet
before them.
One by one the men and mules gave ou
and we're left to rest and make their wal
Ddl p 10 t1LlD rive llltll Only hEGtlluttl III
peak, clambering over frozen snow-al
though it was August-shod IN moccasini
so thin that the toes could be used in max
ing firm foothold On the 18th of th'
month Fremont and four companions
hoisJed the stars and stripes on the highes
peak Of Wind River mountains, 3,5I5 fee
above their main camp, ESQ feet above tn
lake at the base of the range and 1881
feet abOve the sea.
Numerous adventures followed and tn
part returned by the way of Fort Larami
to 81. Louis, and Fremont was ordered t
cross the Rockies and explore as far as tn
Pacific. With 80 men, he started in May
1913. followed the emigrant trail across tn
Kansas, keeping south Of Fort Laramie t
the i latte and Sweetwater through tn
South pass The northern end of the Grea
Salt Lake was explored from the Bea
river, and the party was reduced TO 2
picked men who set out for the Columbia
They were well equipped and carried aloni
mountain hOwitzer which kept in aw
the warlike Arapahoes, Cheyennes am
Shoshones. The different tribes demandet
tribute and massacres were averted onl,
by shrewdness or bold tactics.
AT one of the crossings of the Columb
the scouts reported the ford covered by
village Of Indians encamped on the bank