The party was now fairly in the Indian country, and the chances of the wilderness were opening before them.
About three weeks in advance of this party, there was a company of emigrants bound to Oregon.

There were sixteen or seventeen families, men, women and children.

Sixty-four of these were men.

They had suffered severely from illness, and there had been many deaths among them.

One of these emigrants, who had buried his child, and whose wife was very ill, left the company under the guidance of a hunter, and returned to the States.