Early in the morning three hunters were sent out.
The rest of the party having collected the horses and breakfasted, we proceeded at seven o'clock up the valley, which is now contracted to the width of from eight to ten miles, with a good proportion of pitch-pine, though its low lands, as well as the bottoms of the creeks, are strewn with large stones.

We crossed five creeks of different sizes, but of great depth, and so rapid that in passing the last several of the horses were driven down the stream, and some of our baggage was wet.

Near this river we saw the tracks of two Indians, whom we supposed to be Shoshonees.

Having made sixteen miles, we halted at an hour for the purpose of doing honor to the birthday of our early country's independence.

The festival was not very splendid, for it consisted of a mush made of cows and a saddle of venison; nor had we anything to tempt us to prolong it.