As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.