Wednesday, May 2.
We saw a few small villages on the banks of the river.
At six o’clock P.M. we passed Lexington City, some forty or fifty miles below Independence, our destination.
Thursday, May 3.
At two o’clock this morning we arrived at Independence Landing, four miles from Independence.
CHAPTER III.
THE OVERLAND TRAIL.
This is the place where we are to be initiated into the beauties of camp life; and to fit out and start with our mule trains for California.
At 4 P.M. we had our tents pitched and, as we believed, were perfectly well prepared for the first night in camp, and partaking of a little supper—the first of our own cooking—we lay down, all seeming anxious to try our new manner of living.