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CHAPTER XXXIII
Gloomy council -- exploring parties -- discouraging reports --
disastrous experiment -- detachments in quest of succor
-- caches, how made -- return of one of the detachments
-- unsuccessful -- further disappointments -- the Devil's
Scuttle Hole PAGE 		260
CHAPTER XXXIV
Determination of the party to proceed on foot -- dreary deserts
between Snake River and the Columbia -- distribution of
effects preparatory to a march -- division of the party --
rugged march along the river -- wild and broken scenery
-- Shoshonies -- alarm of a Snake encampment -- inter-
course with the Snakes -- horse dealing -- value of a tin
kettle -- sufferings from thirst -- a horse reclaimed -- for-
titude of an Indian woman -- scarcity of food -- dog's
flesh a dainty -- news of Mr. Crooks and his party --
painful travelling among the mountains -- snow-storms --
a dreary mountain prospect -- a bivouac during a wintry
night -- return to the river bank 		267
CHAPTER XXXV
An unexpected meeting -- navigation in a skin canoe -- strange
fears of suffering men -- hardships of Mr. Crooks and his
comrades -- tidings of M'Lellan -- a retrograde march --
a willow raft -- extreme suffering of some of the party --
illness of Mr. Crooks -- impatience of some of the men --
necessity of leaving the laggards behind 		278
CHAPTER XXXVI
Mr. Hunt overtakes the advanced party -- Pierre Dorion, and
his skeleton horse -- a Shoshonie camp -- a justifiable
outrage -- feasting on horse flesh -- Mr. Crooks brought
to the camp -- undertakes to relieve his men -- the skin
ferry-boat -- frenzy of Prevost -- his melancholy fate --
enfeebled state of John Day -- Mr. Crooks again left be-
hind -- the party emerge from among the mountains --
interview with Shoshonies -- a guide procured to conduct
the party across a mountain -- ferriage across Snake River

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Publication Information: Book Title: Astoria. Contributors: Washington Irving - author. Publisher: Binfords & Mort. Place of Publication: Portland, OR. Publication Year: 1951. Page Number: xvii.
    
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