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 32 Joseph J. Hill along the coast from Point Conception to San Pedro but with what success we are not told. Young's trapping expedition in the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, 18 '32-3 %. From Monterey Young pro- ceeded to Los Angeles where he gathered a company of some fourteen men, including his otter hunting party which had by that time returned to Los Angeles, for a beaver hunt. In the early part of October they set out by way of Fort Tejon and the western shore of the Tulare Valley lakes to the mouth of King's River. They trapped up that stream and then crossed to the San Joaquin which they descended as far as Fresno River when it was discovered that the San Joaquin and its tributaries from there on had been recently trapped. Young there- fore pushed on without delay to the Sacramento River. A few miles below the mouth of the American River he came upon a large company of Hudson's Bay trappers under Michel La Framboise. "This party," Warner tells us, "had been in the valley since early in the spring of 1832, having come in over the McLeod trail, and had trapped all the waters of the valley north and west of the San Joaquin River." In January, 1833, after having been marooned for several weeks on the Sacramento, Young and his men made their way to the northwest by way of the southern and western shores of Clear Lake to the Pacific coast which they struck some seventy-five miles north of Fort Ross. "Young followed along the coast," to quote War- ner, "searching with little success for rivers having beaver, and in fruitless attempts to recross the mountain range, until near the Umpquah River, where he succeeded in getting over the mountains and fell upon that river at the eastern base of the coast range of mountains. This river was followed up to its southeastern source, and then traveling Smith's trail, he struck the Klamath Lake near its northern extremity. From thence he trav- eled southerly along its western shore, and, crossing the