Echo Kanyon, August 24th,

23d August. Fort Bridger.

22d August. To Ham’s Fork and Millersville.

We were not under way before 8 A.M. Macarthy was again to take the lines, and a Giovinetto returning after a temporary absence to a young wife is not usually rejoiced to run his course. Indeed, he felt the inconveniences of a semi-bachelor life so severely, ‘that he often threatened in my private ear, chemin faisant, to throw up the whole concern.

To Green River. August 21st.

To the South Pass. August 20th.

To the Foot of South Pass. 19th August.

Up the Sweetwater. 19th August.

17th August. To the Valley of the Sweetwater.

To Platte Bridge. August 16th.

Along the Black. Hills to Box-Elder. 15th August.

I AROSE “between two days,” a little before 4 A.M., and watched the dawn, and found in its beauties a soothing influence, which acted upon stiff limbs and discontented spirit as if it had been a spell.