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24 to camp, informed Fremont of his death. The next morning Fremont himself got together another party & went in search of the body. They also searched some time but not with success. I was grieved on account of the death of the Canadian, for he was a brave, noble souled? fellow; I had been in many an Indian fight with him and I am confident if he was not taken unawares that he surely killed one or two Indians before he fell. We now left the Virgin River keeping to the Spanish trail till we passed the unclear of Santa Clara. We left the Spanish trail there and struck out towards the Utah lake crossed it, went to the unclear & thence to the Green river, Browns hole, the little Snake river and on to the mouth of St Vrain's fork. We there crossed the mountains and struck the Laramie river below the new? Park, passed the new and journeyed on into the old Park, from there we travelled to the unclear Saludo, the head waters of the South fork of the Platte & then to the Arkansas where it leaves the mountains. We went down this stream to Bents fort. Arrived at this fort on the 2nd of July, 1844 and remained there till after the 4th, then Fremont and his party started for the states and I left for Taos. On the 4th of July Wm Bent gave Fremont and his party a splendid dinner the day was celebrated as well, if not better than in many of the towns of the states. I arrived in Taos and remained there till March 1845. Then Dick Owens and I concluded that as we had rambled? enough that it would be advisable for us to go and settle on some good stream and make us a farm. We went to this little Cimaron? River about 45 miles east of Taos, built ourselves little huts and put in a considerable supply of grain and commenced to cut timber to enlarge our improvements. We remained here till August of that same year.