Soon after this they encountered a solitary Indian, who had an antelope which he had killed.They were now very near country idol contest Fort Hall.Though night came down upon the wanderers, cold and stormy, rousing fires and smoking steaks made all happy.The Indians slowly and country idol contest cautiously advanced, until they came within speaking distance.Gillespie had brought the Colonel letters from home and he was up, and kept a large fire burning until after midnight.He mounted his horse and, following his trail, by rapid riding country idol contest overtook him after a pursuit of seventy miles.He thought it, however, expedient to diminish the number of his party.From this point Kit Carson was sent, with one companion and a relay of mules, about country idol contest forty miles in a northwesterly direction to Fort Hall, on Snake river, to obtain supplies.Fitzpatrick was within a few miles of them, with an ample supply of provisions.Carson, who could speak their language, hailed them and ordered country idol contest them to stop.Improvidently the plates of the boat had been gummed together only, instead of being also sewed.We felt also pleasure in remembering that we were the first who, in the traditionary annals of the country, had visited the island and broken with the cheerful sound country idol contest of human voices, the long solitude of the place.