From these Mr.Stuart took whatever was requisite for his party; he then deposited within them all his superfluous baggage, and all the books and papers scattered around; the holes were then carefully closed up, and all traces of them effaced.

And here we have to record another instance of the indomitable spirit of the western trappers.

No sooner did the trio of Kentucky hunters, Robinson, Rezner, and Hoback, find that they could once more be fitted out for a campaign of beaver-trapping, than they forgot all that they had suffered, and determined upon another trial of their fortunes; preferring to take their chance in the wilderness, rather than return home ragged and penniless.

As to Mr.Miller, he declared his curiosity and his desire of travelling through the Indian countries fully satisfied; he adhered to his determination, therefore, to keep on with the party to St.Louis, and to return to the bosom of civilized society.
The three hunters, therefore, Robinson, Rezner, and Hoback, were furnished, as far as the caches and the means of Mr.Stuart's party afforded, with the requisite munitions and equipments for a "two years' hunt;" but as their fitting out was yet incomplete, they resolved to wait in this neighborhood until Mr.Reed should arrive; whose arrival might soon be expected, as he was to set out for the caches about twenty days after Mr.Stuart parted with him at the Wallah-Wallah River.
Mr.Stuart gave in charge to Robinson a letter to Mr.Reed, reporting his safe journey thus far, and the state in which he had found the caches.

A duplicate of this letter he elevated on a pole, and set it up near the place of deposit.
All things being thus arranged, Mr.Stuart and his little band, now seven in number, took leave of the three hardy trappers, wishing them all possible success in their lonely and perilous sojourn in the wilderness; and we, in like manner, shall leave them to their fortunes, promising to take them up again at some future page, and to close the story of their persevering and ill-fated enterprise..