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 CONTENTS. Diggers &#59; misery of tlieir situation, strange mode of lying, with a sketch of their character. The Navijos &#59; their civilization, hostility to Spaniards, ludicrous barbarity, hraver^^ &#38;c., with a sketch of their country, and why they are less favorable to the whites than formerly. 221 CHAPTER XXII. Uintah trade. Snake Indians &#59; their country and character. Description of Upper California. The Ea.«tern Section. Great Salt Lake and circumjacent country. Desert. Digger country, and regions south. Fertility of soil. / Prevailing rock and inineraJs. Abundance of wild fruit, grain, and game.*^ Valley of the Colorado. Magnificent scenery. Valleys of the Uintah and other rivers. Vicinity of the Gila. Face of the country, soil &#38;c. Sweet spots. 3Iildness of chraate, and its healthines.s. The natives. Sparsity of inhabitants. No government. All about the Colorado and Gila rivers. Abundance of fish. Trade in pearl oyster-shells. Practicable routes from the United States. 232 CHAPTER XXIII. &#123;ffinerala. Western California. The Sacramento and contiguous regions. Principal rivers. Fish. Commercial advantages. Bay of San Francisco. Other Bays and Harbors. Description of the countiy &#59; tei-ritory northwest of the Sacramento &#59; llamath Mountains &#59; California range and its vicinity &#59; southern parts &#59; timber, river-bottoms &#59; Valleys of Sacramento, del Plumas, and ItJare &#59; their extent, fertility, timber, and fruit &#59; wild grahi and clover, spontaneous&#59; wonderful fecundity of soil, and its products &#59; the productions, climate, luins, and dews &#59; geological and minei-alogical character &#59; face of the country &#59; its water &#59; its healtliiness &#59; game &#59; superabundance of cattle, horses, and sheep, their prices, &#38;c.&#59; beasts of prey&#59; the inhabitants, who&#59; Indians, theix character and condition &#59; Capital of the Province, v.ith other tovras &#59; advantages of San Francisco &#59; inland settlements &#59; foreigners and McfxieaM &#59; Government &#59; its full military strength. Remarks. 239 CHAPTER XXIV. VitdtoTs at Uintah. Adventures of a trapping party. The Munchies, or white Indians &#59; some accomit of Ihem. Amusements at rendezvous. Mysterious city, and attempts at its eiploration,— speculation relative to its inhabitants, I^ave for Fort liail. Camp at Bear river. Boundary between the U. States and Mexico. Green valleys, &#38;c. Comitry en route. Brown&#39;s-hde. Geological observations. Suda, Beer, and SteamJ3oat springs &#59; their peculi- arities. Minerals. Valley of Bear river &#59; it^ fertility, timber, and abun- dance of wild fruit. Bufialo berries. Superior advantages^ of tliis section ACneral tar. 250 CHAPTER XXV. yipit HaQ &#59; iti histoiT, and locality. Information relatlv* to Owgom, Booad^