see them. They evidently know who we are, and, on talking with them,
they tell us that we have been reported lost long ago, and that some
weeks before, a messenger had been sent from Salt Lake City, with
instructions for them to watch for any fragments or relics of our party
that might drift down the stream.
Our new-found friends, Mr. Asa and his two sons, tell us that they are
pioneers of a town that is to be built on the bank.
Eighteen or twenty miles up the valley of the Rio Virgen there are two
Mormon towns, St. Joseph and St. Thomas. To-night we despatch an Indian
to the last mentioned place, to bring any letters that may be there for
us.
Our arrival here is very opportune. When we look over our store of
supplies, we find about ten pounds of flour, fifteen pounds of dried
apples, but seventy or eighty pounds of coffee.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Geologists would call these rocks metamorphic crystalline schists,
with dikes and beds of granite, but we will use the popular name for the
whole series--granite.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Obvious printer's errors, including punctuation have been silently
corrected. Hyphenated and accented words have been standardized.
Page 18--"Peter Martyr tell us..." changed to "Peter
Martyr tells us..."
Page 69--satisfacton changed to satisfaction.
Page 99--oppossed changed to opposed.
Page 101--nihgt changed to night.
Page 127--connonade changed to cannonade.