based on this reading, how would you describe smith's personality?


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7 – 3 Jul 1828
20th I went with the Trappers within a mile of the
place where I struck the river on the last Apl. Above
that there was no Beaver sign but considerable from the
camp up to that place.
I saw some indians on the opposite side of the river
but they ran off. The river was quite rapid and the
rushing of the water brought fresh to my remembrance
the cascades of Mt. Joseph and the unpleasant times I
had passed there when surrounded by the snow which
continued falling.
My horses freezing, my men discouraged and our
utmost exertion necessary to keep from freezing to
death. I then thought of the vanity of riches and of all
those objects that lead men in the perilous paths of
adventure.
It seems that in times like those men return to
reason and make the true estimate of things. They throw
by the gaudy baubles of ambition and embrace the solid
comforts of domestic life. But a few days of rest
makes the sailor forget the storm and embark again on
the perilous Ocean and I suppose that like him I would
soon become weary of the west