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only worth sixteen cents a pound but the old speculators knew that we were obliged to buy at any price I paid her for the loaf and then bought two quarts of milk from her, forty cents more making altogether one dollar and sixty cents for one meal unclear what is called out here a piece of sharp practier?. We sat down to our meal but when I broke open the loaf my joy suddenly sank about fifty degrees it was as black as ink and had a rank disgusting smell made from Mexican unclear flour without any thing being put in to raise or make it light, hungry as we both were we could only swallow a few bites we drank our milk the water had not been spared on that either and then took our leave we left on the table the most part of the bread. We continued on our way and about an hour after struck the Arkansas River, it is here a grand looking sight on either side is a level prairie about a mile wide rising from that is the loftiest mountain of the range there summits are in the blue clouds and eternally covered with snow. The one on the West side of the river is said to be the highest and it is believed by Indians and white men that it is impossible to cross it, there is a superstitious belief that it never can be crossed by mortal being. But I have no doubt that at no very distant day the enterprising spirit of the gold hunters will scorn? all obstacles and explore every part of its gloomy hights once the idea gets into their heads that there is rich gold fields beyond those peaks and you could get a party of volunteers in one hour. The river here is a clear stream about fifty yards wide and running at the rate of about ten miles an hour it is a very beautiful stream.