Show 118 Of course Fremont realized that to view the great expanse of the lake body was so about little it it is him away for the known he was not However the first since that and he had heard so many rumors not unnatural that his emotions should carry moment they gazed at the spectacle before them enthusiasm for the proposed boat trip on the lake mounted rapidly in As the small group and speculation concerning what they might 3 on Fremont: ran find the islands high Says We fancied that vie should find every one of the large islands a tangled wilderness of trees and shrubbery teeming with game of every description that the neighboring region afforded and which the footWe of a white man or Indian had never violated believed that vie should find clear streams and springs of fresh 7ater That white men had never been on the islands is probab- ly true at least we have no record of such visits but Fremont was certainly wrong in asserting that Indians had not occupied them During the summer of 1944 the writer brought from Fremont Island two metates made from vesicular lava worn thin bv much use These had been located a few days earlier by men digging into what they believed to be an V Indian grave Alfred Lambourne while homesteading Gunnison Island during the 1890's reported the finding of human Report of Exploring Expedition 152 4 These specimens are now in the collection of Jean Ogden Utah 3 Fremont Case |