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ground preferring other company but a few rifle shots persuaded him to stop with us. the stream clear & cold in the afternoon we travelled 12 or 15 miles through a narrow dry valley, with steep hills & rocks on either side, our road through the valley being very bad, we reached cache-le-poudre river about dark was quite unwell again with headache July 10 Raised camp about 7 travelled up the stream among the mountains, our road very rough crossing one of the branches 8 or 10 times as one side of the valley or the other gave us the best path, sometimes climbing hills as steep as the animals could clamber up & sliding down on the opposite side, & the prospect as we proceeded seemed less inviting. With snow clad peaks around us "alps upon Alps" with many singular rocks & frowning precipices. Saw today the service berry - sweet - resembling somewhat the thimble berry, or June berry camped on a small stream of clear cold water, saw a few antelope through the day = on guard from 8 to 10 oclock, July 11th raised camp about 7 Oclock crossed from one small stream to another, over very steep hills, & had to lead our animals up & down, saw a good many scattered Elks horns = & some beautiful flowers, one of a very bright red color with the calyx covered with white down or wool, & the flower looked very pretty in its downy stem, at our noon camp on a pretty mountain stream, saw and old duck with a number of young ones, saw one Buffalo in the distance, & in the afternoon passed over some high hills,, through groves of Pine & Cottonwood, a pleasant sight after travelling through such a treeless country, we descended into a broad valley & saw torn page hills on the (south East) or opposite side, saw a good torn page