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Show Personal Experience- (Continued) I will now relate what I learned since our seperation, what became of Carjtian Smith and party, as I heard it from one of his own men, whom I met in the Gold Mines in the spring of 1850. He said that from Division Spring they traveled westward for a day or so, without finding any water and were forced " to return to Division spring, but before reaching the serine, thev - had become so exhusted that they killed one of their animals, and ate the flesh and drank its blood, ful-filing ful-filing his assertion that is quoted in a former article. From Division' spring Smith took the back track until he and those with him reached the old Spanish trail at, or near the Mountain Meadows, where thev fell in with a company of emigrants emi-grants on their way to California. This company took them in and furnished them1 with provisions, etc., and took them to California. When Captain Smith had decided to return to division spring, there were eleven men who were determined deter-mined to go on through to the gold min 68, at all hazards, and so left his company and turned their faces again westward, trusting to chance, to find water. Somewhere near Owen's Lake, in sight of the Sierra Nevada, they were divided in opinion opin-ion as to the best route to pursue, so they divided up, nine going in one direction and two in another. The two arrived at their destination destina-tion in safety, but had it not been for some acorns which they-found, that had been cached by Indians, they would have' perished. H.W.B. To be continued. |