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Title: The boy's story of Zebulon M. Pike;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 Humphreys, Mary Gay, d. 1915, ed
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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into eight different parties, viz.: 1st. Thedoctor and his companion; 2d. The two men with thefirst sled; 3d. The interpreter and the two men withthe horses; 4th. Myself; 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, two meneach, with sleds at different distances; all of whom, ex-cept the last, had orders, if they killed any game, tosecure some part in a conspicuous place, for their com-panions in the rear. I marched about five miles on theriver, which was one continued fall through a narrowchannel, with immense cliffs on both sides. Near nightI came to a place where the rocks are perpendicular onboth sides, and there was no ice, except a narrow borderon the water. I began to look about, in order to dis-cover which way the doctor and his companion hadmanaged, and to find out what had become of the twolads with the first sled, when I discovered one of thelatter climbing up the side of the rocks. I called to him;he and his companion immediately joined me. Theysaid they had not known whether we were before or in
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LABORED ALL DAY, BUT MADE ONLY ONE MILE. In the Mountains of Colorado 235 the rear; they had eaten nothing for the last two days,and that this night they had intended to have boiled adeer-skin to subsist on. We at length discovered anarrow ravine, where was the trace of the doctor andhis companion; as the water had run down it andfrozen hard, it was one continuous sheet of ice. Weascended it with the utmost difficulty and danger, loadedwith baggage. On the summit of the first ridge wefound an encampment of the doctor, and where theyhad killed a deer, but they now had no meat. He after-ward informed me that they had left the greater parthanging on a tree, but supposed the birds had destroyedit. I left the boys to bring up the remainder of thebaggage, and went out to kill some subsistence; woundeda deer, but the darkness of the night approaching couldnot find him. I returned hungry, weary, dry, and hadonly snow to supply the calls of nature. Distance 8miles. Jan. ^th. I went out in the

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