Next day the journal has this entry:-- "In the morning our horses were so much scattered that, although we sent out hunters in every direction to range the country for six or eight miles, nine of them could not be recovered.

They were the most valuable of all our horses, and so much attached to some of their companions that it was difficult to separate them in the daytime.

We therefore presumed that they must have been stolen by some roving Indians; and accordingly left a party of five men to continue the pursuit, while the rest went on to the spot where the canoes had been deposited.

We set out at ten o'clock and pursued a course S.56'0 E.across the valley, which we found to be watered by four large creeks, with extensive low and miry bottoms; and then reached (and crossed) Wisdom River, along the northeast side of which we continued, till at the distance of sixteen miles we came to its three branches.

Near that place we stopped for dinner at a hot spring situated in the open plain.