We now wound through the hills and mountains, passing several rivulets which ran to the right, and at the distance of nine miles from the gap encamped, having made thirty-two miles.

We procured some beaver, and this morning saw tracks of buffalo, from which it appears that those animals do sometimes penetrate a short distance among the mountains." Next day the party found themselves in clover, so to speak.

Game was plenty, and, as their object now was to accumulate meat for the three men who were to be left at the falls (and who were not hunters), they resolved to strike the Medicine, or Sun, River and hunt down its banks.
On that river the journal, July 10, has this to say:-- "In the plains are great quantities of two species of prickly-pear now in bloom.

Gooseberries of the common red kind are in abundance and just beginning to ripen, but there are no currants.

The river has now widened to one hundred yards; it is deep, crowded with islands, and in many parts rapid.