After  a  brief  stay  in  the  section  watered  by  the
San  Francisco  river  a  part  of  the  company  started  for
a  very  long  and  toilsome  joufliey.  To  the  number  of
about  twenty,  in  the  employment  of  Young,  they
wended  their  way  toward  distant  California.  Pass-
ing through  many  regions  of  arid  desolation,  where
water  was  hardly  to  be  obtained  in  sufficient  quanti-
ties to  quench  their  burning  thirst;  at  other  times
encountering  Indian  tribes  inhabiting  pleasant  tracts
of  land,  through  which  clear  streams  danced  and
glanced  in  the  pleasant  sunlight,  they  managed  to
pass  through  all  these  varied  scenes  without  meeting


14  ADTEMURES  OP  KIT  CAllSON.
