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 After Lewis had returned to Taos from his trapping expedition in the mountains, first became acquainted with him. In the month of August, I heard that MT. John Harris, of Missouri, was collecting party for the purpose of entering and trapping the Cumanche country. upon the heads of Red River and Fausse Washta and was induced, by the prospect of gain, and by other motives, to go up from Santa Fe 10 Taos, and join him. Alter my arrival, however, thought 1t best to buy an outfit of Mir. Campbell, who was going into the same country, and to join him, and did so. he only Americans in our party, were MT. 3 Campbell, young man who came with me from Santa Re, and myself. There was Likewise Frenchman. bought my outfit -one horse, one mule, six traps, and plen- ty of powder, lead, and tobacco, and went out to the valley of the Picurs, a distance of about thirty miles, over the hills and among the pine woods. Here and there was little glade, among the hills, grassy and green; but generally t was all bleak and unpfoductive country. The pine trees were stripped of bark to the height of six or eight feet by the Apaches, who prepare the inner coat of the bark in some manner. and eat 1t; and I observed that 1t was only one particular kind of pine which they used, viz. the rough yellow pine. Ny friend and myself were alone, and in consequence,

 we soon lost our way we travelled until nearly night, and then retraced our steps for about tonr miles, 10 place where We had seen remains of an Indian fire. Here we kindled a large fire, tied our horses, and lay down with our guns by our sides. Ne were awakened early in the morning by the howting of wolves close to us, which. howe yer, was of short duration. We'then mount cd, and proceeded again towards Iaes, but meeting Mexican, wno was going to our camp 10 recover horse, which he said he 2 had lost, we turned back again. and about noon arrived at camp; where we staId four or five days, lounging about and auarreling with the New Mexicans, for whom we had killed several oxen, and who disEked the . Idea of going to San Fernandez to receive their pay. On tie fourth of September, those of our partv and Harris's for whom we had been waiting, came out from Taos. Both parties joined, made up between sey- enty aud eighty men, of whom about thirty were Americans. One was Eutaw, one an Apache, and the others were Mexicans Among the men who came out on the fourth, was Lewis, who belonged to the party of Harris.

 The readers need not expect much delin- cation of characters. Trappers are like sailors; when you describe one, the por- trait answers for the whole genus. As a specimen of the genuine trapper, Bill Will Hams certainly stands foremost. He is a man about six feet one inch ln height, gaunt, and red-headed, with hard, weatbeY-beaten face, marked deeply vii. th.e ss,;sal! pox.-- He IS all muscle and sinew, and the most indefatgable. hunter and trapper in the world. He has no glory except in the - woods, and his ambition IS to kill more deer and catch more beaver than any other man about him. Nothing tires him, not even running all day with six traps on his back. His horse fell once, as he was galloping along the edge of a steep hill, and rolled down the hill, while his feet were entangled in the stirrups, and his traps flashing against him at every turn. He was picked up half dead, by his companion, and set upon his 5 A-cAPN5 oAiA tttSi eeti hV OutNttS0 Lttjis dtid . obtained the best set for his traps. Nei- thcr IS he fool. He is sfrewed, acute, original man, and far from ilterate He was once preacher, and afterwards an in- tcrpreter Tn the 0sage nation.

 There was Tom Banks, the Vroinian, with his Irish tongue, and his long stories about Saitee, asshe called Satillo, and the three tribes of Indians, the Teuacanas. Wequas, and l'oyahs, whose names were never out of his boasting mouth. He claimed to have been prisoner among the Cumanches three months; but he lied. for he could not utter word of their language.

 There were various others, better at boast ing than at fighting and few upon whom man might depend in an emergency.

 We left the valley of the Picuris on the sixth day of September, taking the pass which, following tho river up, lod out to the large valley of the Demora, at which we arrived on the same day, and encamped near the Old Village-in 1t, in fact. These New MexIcans, with pertinacity worthy of the Yankee naion, have pushed out into