Thus, with difficulties augmenting at every step, they urged their toilsome way among the hills, half famished and faint at heart, when they came to where a fair valley spread out before them, of great extent and several leagues in width, with a beautiful stream meandering through it.

A genial climate seemed to prevail here, for though the snow lay upon all the mountains within sight, there was none to be seen in the valley.

The travellers gazed with delight upon this serene, sunny landscape, but their joy was complete on beholding six lodges of Shoshonies pitched upon the borders of the stream, with a number of horses and dogs about them.

They all pressed forward with eagerness and soon reached the camp.

Here their first attention was to obtain provisions.