They recorded little, and, so far as information was concerned, they might almost as well never have set foot in the wilderness.

But the new man records everything: the wind, the cold, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the mice, the men, the worms, the birds, etc., to the end of his time and his ability.

He is the real explorer, the advance guard of those many expeditions which followed and whose labours form the fourth division of our subject.

Fremont is the name, since that time called "Pathfinder," though, of course, the paths he followed had often before been travelled by the redoubtable trapper, whose knowledge, like that of the native, was personal only.

Indeed, he was guided in his journeys by several men now quite as famous as himself--Kit Carson, Fitzpatrick, Walker, and Godey.