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that is! "Should the report we heard yesterday be true", We fear should we start today, and find the report was true our animals might give out and as we have cooked our last, today, we should be left in rather a bad situation. animals given out with nothing for them to eat "or drink perhaps," and nothing for ourselves to eat, Even if we find grass for our animals by traveling 60 miles we may have to go as far again to find something for ourselves. for all we know perhaps not half as far, how far, we don't know, to have thought best to lay over here today and let our animals rest and pick up what they can and some of us can go out hunting and see if we can find something for ourselves to eat they went and returned towards night without being able to find the first thing. however we console ourselves with the fact of our having one, or two poor and lame mules. Should more come to worse no danger of our starving we think. We expect to leave here in the morning provisions or no provisions. Wednesday September 12th. Pleasant this morning we see there is