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The news of Jier's arrival, and the swift ruerous portion of the route

ahead, spread an instantaneous feeling of relief throughout the hesitant

encampment at this, the last touch with civilization east of the

destination He paused briefly at one or another wagon after he hadin his own independent

way, en route to fulfill his pro the trader's

ruave his dicta value In

one assertion, however, he ide of the truth, or short of it So far

fro as bad as they could be, the rapid events of that sa proved that still more confusion was to ensue, and that

speedily

There ca into the post from the ard a little party of

old-ti their near-spent mounts and packs at a

speed unusual even in that land of vast distances They were headed by a

h he had rerirant trains

at Fort Hall in order to do proselyting for California, extolling the