Disappointment Island

Fremont says that we felt pleasure in knowing that we were the first who in the traditional annals of the country had visited the island and broke with joyful sound the long solitude.

But in view of the dissipation of his dream of fertility, he named it Disappointment Island.

Turning northward, Fremont reached, on September 18, 1843, Fort Hall, Idaho, then a post under British control, whose original importance as an Indian trading post had been greatly enhanced by its location on the emigrant route to Oregon, at a distance of over 1,300 miles from the then frontier settlement of Westport, Missouri.

Following closely the emigrant trail, Fremont on October 8 passed Fort Boise, then occupied by the Hudson Bay Company, and on the 25th of the month arrived at another trading establishment of this company at the junction of the Walla Walla and Columbia Rivers.

Now, the last question is, you are stranded on the Auckland Islands.

in particular Disappointment Island.

So these are five things that you're taking to avoid being disappointed while stranded.

So this is always just a good figuring out the inner workings of people's brain.

Yes.

Uh, in particular Disappointment Island, so the five things that you're taking to avoid being disappointed while you're stranded.

[laughs] Fair enough.

So, um, for me, first of all, it would have to be ...

Yep

... and this was one of the things we learned along the way.

Did you go to Disappointment Island?

Uh, we went past it.

It's so good.

Um, now I was looking forward to asking you this one, 'cause I'm like, "Where's he gonna go with this as, as someone that's, you know, would s- survive days out there?" You're stranded on the Auckland Islands, in particular Disappointment Island.

What are the five things you take? Um, like, obviously you're stranded for we don't know how much time, but what are the things you're taking to avoid being disappointed on Disappointment Island?

So firstly, it's probably my happy place.

Yeah, [laughs] I know.

From a discussion of the barometrical observations made during our stay on the shores of the lake, we have adopted forty-two hundred feet for its elevation above the Gulf of Mexico.

In the first disappointment we felt from the dissipation of our dreams of the fertile islands, I call this Disappointment Island.

Out of the driftwood we made ourselves pleasant little lodges, open to the water, and after having kindled large fires to excite the wonder of any straggling savage on the lake shores, lay down, for the first time in a long journey, in perfect security, no one thinking about his arms.

The evening was extremely bright and pleasant, but the wind rose during the night, and the waves began to break heavily on the shore, making our island tremble.