This is a large stream, some six hundred miles in length, which pours its flood through the Columbia river into the Pacific Ocean.
Here Kit Carson met a Mr.McCoy, formerly a trader in the employment of the Hudson Bay Company, but who was now out on a trapping excursion.

With the consent of his companions, Kit Carson and five others withdrew from the larger party to join their fortunes with Mr.McCoy.A rumor had reached them that abundance of beaver were to be found at a distance of about one hundred and fifty miles, on Mary's river, since called the Humboldt.

Here again they were doomed to disappointment.

They followed down this stream, trapping in vain, for a hundred miles, till its waters were lost in what is called the Great Basin.
These hardy adventurers now directed their steps north, and after traversing a country, most of it wild and barren, about two hundred miles in extent, again reached the banks of the Snake river, midway between its source and its mouth.

Here the company divided.