Having reached the open country he went for twelve miles in a course a little to the W.of S.W.; when, the sun becoming warm by nine o'clock, he returned to the river in quest of water, and to kill something for breakfast; there being no water in the plain, and the buffalo, discovering them before they came within gunshot, took to flight.

They reached the banks in a handsome open low ground with cottonwood, after three miles' walk.

Here they saw two large brown bears, and killed them both at the first fire--a circumstance which has never before occurred since we have seen that animal.

Having made a meal of a part, and hung the remainder on a tree, with a note for Captain Clark, they again ascended the bluffs into the open plains.
Here they saw great numbers of the burrowing-squirrel, also some wolves, antelopes, mule-deer, and vast herds of buffalo.

They soon crossed a ridge considerably higher than the surrounding plains, and from its top had a beautiful view of the Rocky Mountains, which are now completely covered with snow.