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and up the north fork and wintered on the big Snake river and its tributaries. There we found Thomas McCoy one of the Hudson bay traders. Antoine Earley four more men and myself found McCoy on the Mary's river now called the Humboldt. having heard that plenty of beaver were to be found there we trapped down the Mary's river to where looses itself in the great basin, but found few beaver, then we went up it some eighty miles and struck across it to the waters of big Snake river. We separated there, McCoy going to Fort Wallawala while we went to Fort Hall. On our march we found no game, the country being barren. For many days the only food we had consisted of roots and cooked blood drawn from our horses. About four days before we got to the fort we met a family of Indians. I traded with them for a fat horse which we Killed and feasted on for a couple days. We then Set out again for the fort where we arrived Safely. We were received Kindly by the people there and treated well. We remained with them for a few days & then started out to hunt for Buffalo, a big herd of which we were informed were not more than a days march further on. We Killed a good many buffalo and then returned to the fort. The Blackfeet Indians must have seen us while we were hunting for that night they came to the fort and stole every horse we had. We were encamped outside the fort, but our animals were in one of the corrals belonging to it. During the night our sentinel saw two men approach let down the bars and drive out the horses, thinking that they were men of our party turning out the animals to graze he made no outcry. We were now afoot and had to remain so for about a month till McCoy came and we joined him and started for the rendezvous on the Green river. He had plenty of animals and we purchased those we needed from him.