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Friday Septemper 7th 1849 Pleasant, we left camp around 7AM, we stopped two or three hours to noon, in the PM, we saw The Log house built by the Emigrants that perished in the mountains. Have?, in 1846, we stopped here sometime looking about we saw the bones of Their Animals laying about here, but unclear of the persons that perished here, have all been collected together, "by a company sent out by the US Officers? for their? purpose" and were buried in a vault, bug by them, inside of the Log house. The Emigrants had unclear unclear, from appearences we should judge. The snow unclear have been some 15, or 20 feet, deep here/ at that time, we think so. From the lack of the Trees being cut off about that distance from the ground. The builiding, no doubt was built before the snow was deep, as soon, as they found There was no chance for