As the morning dawned serene and cloudless upon them, all suspicions seem to have been dispelled.

They replenished their fires, cooked their savory breakfast, and decided to remain for a day or two in their delightful encampment.

The region abounded with the most desirable game, and it was thought that beaver might be found in the adjacent streams.
Kit Carson had a remarkably retentive memory, and a wonderful aptitude for comprehending the mazes of rivers, mountains, and valleys.

He had very thoroughly studied the geography of these regions, and told his companions that at a distance of a few miles, there was a much larger stream than that upon which they were encamped; and that he had been informed that beaver were to be found there in abundance.

There were two ways of approaching that stream; the shorter, but more difficult one, was by clambering over a mountain ridge several hundred feet high, and then descending into the valley beyond, through which the river flowed.