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Three dollars fu r m.] Volume XIII.J AMERICAN F.N I ERPRIZE. [from THE MISSOURI O AZETTE.j Wf lall week promised our read ers an account oi the journey of the gen *e uen attached to the N"W'- Y< ik Eur Company, from the Pa cific Ocean to this place; we now lay i’ before oar readers as collect ed i rom the gentlemen thetnfeives. On the 29th June, iBl 2. Mr. R hut Stuart, one of the Pacific Eur Company, wi h two Erench nu, Me if s. Ramsey Crooks and }* hert M‘Clelan, left the Pacific Un-an with despatches lor Ncw- Ywtk. After afeending the Columbia ri ver 90 miles, John Day. one of rtic huM-ts, became perfectly infant, and was sent back to the main ellab -I.finnan, under the charg. of fnnie In. i.ins; the remaining fix pursued their voyage upwards of 900 onles, viiui ifit y happily met w ; th Mr. J.i fipit Miller on his way to the mouth of the Columbia ; he had been con fiJerabiy to the fiufh and raff 4- inong the nations called Blaikarms and A apahavs. by the latter of v, ho ;i lie was robhei; in conle quence of which he luffereel almost tvi ry privation human nature is ca pable of, and was in a Hate of ftar vat ion and alrnofl nudity when the parry met him 1 hey now had fifteen horfc>. and miriut-d rheir journey for the Atlan tic world, without any uncommon accident until within 200 miles of the Rocky mountains, where they t: forunatcly met with a party of Crow Indians, who behaved with r.ioft unbounded insolence, 5c were sh l y prevented from cutting off toe party by obfetving them well armed 5; conitanrly on their guard. They however pursued on their tic.: k fix day* and finally (tol. eve ry hone belonging to the party •borne idea of the situation t>f tit- !e men may be conceived, when we r.ik’ into conn deration that they were flow on foot and had a j >ur rev of 2200 milts before them, 1500 of which entirely unknown, es they intended and profeouted it cm fiderably south of VKiFs Lewis and Clark’s route: the imp flihili. ty oi carrying any quantity of pro visions on their backs, in addition to their anmnition and bedding, will occur, at fu ll view. The dan ger to lie apprehended from (larva tion was emminent. They however pat the befl face open their profpedh, and pursued their route towards the Rocky tr. mntains at the head waters of the Colorado or Spanilh River, and Rood their c urfe E. S. E. until they ftrudt the iie.id waters of the great fiver Platte, which they unde viatingly followed to its mouth It may be observed, that this River for about geo miles is navigable for a barge; from thence to the Otto village, within 45 miles ol its en trance into the Miffout i, it is a mere bed of sand without vratet fufiicieat to float a skin canoe. Erom the Otto village to St. Louis the party performed their Vs ON IXOB'. PUBLISHED (weekm-) BY DAVID P. IIILLIIOUSE. WASHINGTON, (Oco.) —SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1813. j voyage in a canoe furnlflicd them I by the natives am! arrived here in perLd health on the sOth of lull month. Our travellers did not : hear of rite war with England until they ('ante to the Ottos; thefepeo ple told them that the Sliawafioe Prophet had fc-nt them a wampum, inviting them toj >in the war again ft . the Americans: they anfwored the | intfTenger, that they could make ’ more bv trapping beaver th..t; tnuk ing war against the Americans. After cr< {Trig the hills (Rocky mountains) tlu v fell in with .1 i,t:..1! ; P rt y of Snake Indians, from wln in ■ they purchaled a boric. who re’iev ed them from any further carriage c.f food, ami this faithful f<;ur f 1 t ed companion performed that ser vice to the Otto village. I hey wintered on the river Platte about 600 miles from its mouth. Bv information received from these gentlemen, it appears that a journey acrid's the coutimnt < i N America might be performed in a waggon, rluii being noobilrvcti n in tit whole route that any perfoit would dare to rail a m >uriiai:i, in addition to its b;ing much the molt din cf and Hi >it one to go from this place to the mouth of the Columbia River. Any future p.my who may undertake this j >urney, and ate tol erably acquainted with the different places, where it wou'd he ntrefl.ny to lay up a f.nall ftockoi provni ms, would not he impede t, as in ail probability they would ni t meet with an InJian to interrupt their pr>gre!s; although on the other route more north, there arc almolt infurmountnble bani.-i'S Meflers Hum, Crooks, Miller, M’Clcllan, M’lCenzie, with about GO men wh 1 left St Louis in the beginning of March. 1811, for the Pacific ocean, reache ! the Arieoras village on the 13 r* 1 day of June, where, meeting with foine Aintri can hunters who had been the pro ceeding year on the waters ci the Columbia with Mr. llenry, and who giving I’m h an account of the route by which they pafT and, as be ing tar preferable in point of procur ing with facility an abundant sup ply of food at all times, as well as avoiding even the pr >bahiiity of fee ing their enemies the Black Fc t, titan by the trade of caprs Lewis and Clark ; the gentlemen of the expedition at once abandoned th> ir former ideas of palling by the fails of the Miff >uri, and made the ne o ffaty arrangments for commenc ing their journey ever land from this place. Eighty horses were purchased and equipped by tlie 1 7th July, anJ on the day following they and parted I from the Aricoias. sixty perions in ; number, all on foot except the part ; ners of the company. In this situ ation they proceeded !• >r five days, having crofted in that time two con i tidtrabh* dreams which joined the 1 Miff.uri below the Aricoras, when j finding an inland tribe of Indians | calling themlelves Shawhays but known among the whites by the ap * ••dial; n cf Cheyennes, we procer i eu fn m these pe< pb an acccfiion I of forty horses, which tiiabltii the • gentlemen to fuinifli a In rlc for < v •< ry tw> men St cling ab< ut W I S. W.th<\ paflid tl:e liuall bratich- I es of the Big River, the 1. tit I\iif fonri above its forks, aid Uvtr.ilof the tributary Breams oi Powder River, one of which followed up they found a bund of the Abfaioca or Crow nation, tncampeii on iis hat k'-. at the foot ol the Big hem pw unt.iin. F< r an’ur.itior. and fume fmail articles, they exchanged .ill tfuu Line for f> utul hoiks with il.ele fivages; tor although tins land war alb wed, by every <>n< who liad A1 ■ ■ w:i them : be by far the hefi behaved of their tribe, it v.as only by an u:..du rable determination of the gent I toeti to avoid jtr.pareiz it.g tftc ( deity of the party without at the fame tm-nunt lubmitting it to intentional iniubs, ts at thev left this cm p (not pi fie fling a greater t r< e b at: the whites) without com ing to p!nv in* 1 uLmce front the Aricoras to this in. nt tain is abi ut 45c n.iies ( vei an ixtnn.e tUy;: touk.ly no tiu ans mi 1 O't g. b flic i>nt lup jl. 1 I water ;lui 1 mii.g th- twen ty <ll hr da vs ti.y vtr pitting to the br(< < f the mi uMatti, :h- \vm c otrlv i - a v iv i- w inttai vev witla ut abunuiit.ee oi E. fialoe meat. I hree days *o< k tin in over ti e plains of Mail River (tin-name giv en tiie U : Hon. above the moun tain) wbiifi following for a mum Ik r of data rln y lift ir uhtie it was rcviuced to yard i > in wici'h, and the lame evi mt g tcached fi t banks of the Cos oraoo nr Spanish river. Finning fl cks ol Buftaloe at the • ini of the third day’s travel 011 this it ream, the- party psfied a week in d:\iig Bi.ftnloe meat lor flic left due oi (hi voyage, ; s in ail proba hi'irv tlu le were the lafl animals of the kind they would meet with— From this camp in one day. they crofted the dividing mountain at and pitched their tuts 01 II lacks Fork of Mad liver, when it was near 150 feet broad, ar.il in eight davs more having patted ftvcral ftti pendous ridges they encan pen in the vicinity of the eftabl fhment made by Mr. Henry, i:i the tali of ißro, on a fotic of about 70 yards wide, bearing tlie* name erf that g< n tlemaa ; having travelled front die in; : n Miliburi about 900 milts in 54 t'avs. Here, abandoning thtir horse?,. the* party conftruded caroes at.d dcfctxided tl.e Snake or Ky 1 ‘e riem river (made bv the innclion of Mad river l.ntth ut Henry’s f< ik) 400 miles, in ihe cntnfe of which they wtie obligee! by the intirvcn tion of iinpaflafile rapids to make a numb’ r of p itages. till i t length they found the riv* r cot fined be tween glocn.y precipices at Iraft 20c feet pel pm: icular, whole banks for the mofl pi’rt were washed by tliis tut Indent fir*, am, w Inch for thir ty milis was a con it oal lucctfin-n of ca‘ ades and rapids Mr. Crcwk’s canoe ’at ‘pill ;.r.d upiet [ Payable half yearly. in the middle of a rapi.!, hv which one mart vv3’ drowned, tianx and An te nio ( l.ippin, and that gentleman saved liim'i■!♦ emly *\ extrmei x< r tions in fevitiii. 4 FVoai the repeat-* ed It ft t'V tilt- up!et:ii.g e.l cat.i e3 ou 1 Hock 1 I provHu... ... Ti w re duced ro a bale* fuffi i y t live days, totally i.-rn'ratit of the e in try where they we re, an-'unlur 1 H ful in meeting with any of tiu* na tives. from whom they could hope for information. I T able t> procee*d by \v:t;r, Mefirs M’Kir.zL, M*('lel!ati and Reed, let out m different dir. cl: ns iTidir i"g down the river, lor ttie nut pole id finding and htiy i. g itorfes. Mr. (toa-.ks aneJ a tew men returned t * Henry's fork h r th< le they had I. ft, w bile Mr I lunt rtn ained will: tlk* main b■!v of the nu n in trapping b aver ‘or thi ir support. Mr. C finding the dif taii.e much greater by land than he had coLtempla'ed, teturi.eel at the end ol d.itc days, where want ing live more, expecting relief from below, the near approach <l winter made him determine on dip fi'ing pllfurpeiflu -usarticles and pr. tend ing on toot. Accordingly on be ictfi of November, Mtff s Uurit and Cr*:eks fit out each with 18 men, o;.e party on the north jnd the other on the south fide of ‘he river. Mr. Hunt was fortunate hi find ing Indians, with abundance of tai tn n and fome hoiks, but Mr. Cr. Us law but few, ain ::i gener al too rnikrxbly poor to ; ti- n! liic party much affiliance; thiite-ni days travel bioughr the ‘at'ei t ia high range e.t mountains thr-iugh which the rivtr lor. id ?. pdf’ and the bank heir g th.ir en'v ■ t ide tht y Hill, by Imib.it g 1 -ver ]:. ints of ro< ky ric'ges jrrojtitmg into tfie fire,.m, kept as r.tar it a pt.fi: le, till in the evening <H tht 30 I)c ----ctmber in.paff.ih:e pricipircs nj im rntnfe height put an end to ail hopes of following the margin of •he war-rcourle, which here was nit more than forty yards wide, ran with incredible velocity and was wirh.il fi> founiingly tumultu ous. th it even had the oppe.fitc bank bee n fit for the put ante, at te tt pr at rafting would have been pci'icd r.r.i'ne! ~ as they could 01 ly Have the indue 1 intnt of t ruling in v. watery grave a furies of harelfhips and privations, to which thenvHl hardy and determined of the hu nrm r.ie:e muli have f “and himlelf iaadvquaJe. Ehey attempted to climb tilt mountains, Hi 1 Item <;u puiliing cn, but after afeem'ing for I alt a elay. tin y eifeovered t • their ! rre>\v that they were not half wry to the lummit, and the fnenv alrea dy too deep fer men in their emaci ated Hate to proceed further Regaining the River bank, they returned tip and on the thud . ~y met with Mr. Hunt and party, w jt!i one horle proceeding ekv.v i uaie':; ; a c;n:oe was loi-n made of a horfc hiele and i:i it tmnl'portcd what ni. at thv*v ceud.l Ipare to .Mr. Crock’s flyrvir.tr ‘olluvcrf, who lor [ Number 650.