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ordered to strike for Marys river and then to follow it down to where it is lost in the Basin Fremont took 15 men with him and decided to pass to the south of Marys river. It was planned that both parties should meet at the lake made by the Carson river, we passed over a fine country that abounded in wood, grass and water we had to travel only about 40 miles without water before reaching the lake where we finally arrived and awaited the coming of Talbot. In two or three days he and his party made their appearance. Here we again separated Talbot and Walker to go through a pass to our south, cross over the Sierra Nevada to the waters of San Joaquin. In the meantime we went up the Carson river to Sutter's fort having crossed the Sierra Nevadas & arrived safely at the fort, we found old Captain Sutter there. He was happy to see us and furnished us everything that we wanted. We remained at the Fort for a few days purchased about 40 head of cattle and a few horses & then started to move? our camp. We went up the San Joaquin valley, crossed in where it comes out of the mountains, then on to King's river, up it to the head waters during our march our cattle had become very tender footed travelling over the snow and rocks from the head of King's river we started back for the prairie but when we got there we had no cattle left as they had all given out. We had to leave behind all except those we killed for meat during the night as we were leaving the mountains some Indians crawled into our camp and killed two of our mules. The next morning we started back for the fort through some mistake we had not found our camp and as we had lost nearly all of our animals it became necessary to return, the same evening we came on a party of Indians. Killed five