were to this kind of life they suffered severely, several of them fell to some distance down the sides of the hills, some turned over with the baggage, one was crippled, and two gave out exhausted with fatigue.  After crossing the creek several times we at last made five miles, with great fatigue and labour, and encamped on the left side of the creek in a small stony low ground.  It was not, however, till after dark that the whole party was collected, and then, as it rained, and we killed nothing, we passed an uncomfortable night.  The party had been too busily occupied with the horses to make any hunting excursion, and though as we came along Fish creek we saw many beaver dams we saw none of the animals themselves.  In the morning,

Tuesday 3, the horses were very stiff and weary.  We sent back two men for the load of the horse which had been crippled yesterday, and which we had been forced to leave two miles behind.  On their return, we set out at eight o’clock, and proceeded up the creek, making a passage through the brush and timber along its borders.  The country is generally supplied with pine, and in the low grounds is a great abundance of fir trees, and under bushes.  The mountains are high and rugged, and those to the east of us, covered with snow.  With all our precautions the horses were very much injured in passing over the ridges and steep points of the hills, and to add to the difficulty, at the distance of eleven miles, the high mountains closed the creek, so that we were obliged to leave the creek to the right, and cross the mountain abruptly.  The ascent was here so steep that several of the horses slipped and hurt themselves, but at last we succeeded in crossing the mountain, and encamped on a small branch of Fish creek.  We had now made fourteen miles in a direction nearly north from the river; but this distance, though short, was very fatiguing, and rendered still more disagreeable by the rain which began at three o’clock.  At dusk it commenced snowing, and continued till the ground was covered to the depth of two inches, when it changed into a sleet.  We here met with a serious misfortune the last of our thermometers being broken by accident.  After making a scanty supper on a little corn and a few pheasants killed in the course of the day, we laid down to sleep, and next morning,

Wednesday 4, found every thing frozen, and the ground covered with snow.  We were obliged to wait some time in order to thaw the covers of the baggage, after which we began our journey at eight o’clock.  We crossed a high mountain which joins the dividing ridge between the waters of the creek we had been ascending, and those running to the north and west.  We had not gone more than six miles over the snow, when we reached the head of a stream from the right, which directed its course more to the westward.  We descended the steep sides of the hills along its border, and at the distance of three miles found a small branch coming in from the eastward.  We