As To Mr. Miller, He Declared His Curiosity And His Desire Of Travelling Through The Indian Countries Fully Satisfied; He Adhered To His Determination, Therefore, To Keep On With The Party To St. Louis, And To Return To The Bosom Of Civilized Society.

The three hunters, therefore, Robinson, Rezner, and Hoback, were furnished, as far as the caches and the means of

Mr. Stuart's party afforded, with the requisite munitions and equipments for a "two years' hunt;" but as their fitting out was yet incomplete, they resolved to wait in this neighborhood until Mr. Reed should arrive; whose arrival might soon be expected, as he was to set out for the caches about twenty days after Mr. Stuart parted with him at the Wallah-Wallah River.

Mr. Stuart gave in charge to Robinson a letter to Mr. Reed, reporting his safe journey thus far, and the state in which he had found the caches. A duplicate of this letter he elevated on a pole, and set it up near the place of deposit.

All things being thus arranged, Mr. Stuart and his little band, now seven in number, took leave of the three hardy trappers, wishing them all possible success in their lonely and perilous sojourn in the wilderness; and we, in like manner, shall leave them to their fortunes, promising to take them up again at some future page, and to close the story of their persevering and ill- fated enterprise.

CHAPTER XLV. The Snake River Deserts.- Scanty Fare.- Bewildered Travellers - Prowling Indians- A Giant Crow Chief.- A Bully Rebuked- Indian Signals.- Smoke on the Mountains.- Mad River.- An Alarm.- An Indian Foray- A Scamper.- A Rude Indian joke.- A Sharp-Shooter Balked of His Shot.

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