CHAPTER Y. 



REJOIN THE COMMISSION JOURNEY TO WALLA-WALLA AND BACK 



SCENERY OF THE UPPER COLUMBIA OLD FORT WALLA-WALLA 



WALLA- WALLA INDIANS NEW WALLA-WALLA CITY THE 



HORSE-FAIR INDIAN MUSTANGS CURIOUS CUSTOM OF THE 



SIS-KY-OU INDIANS THE AMERICAN GARRISON AN UGLY 



ADVENTURE OVERLAND TRIP TO WALLA- WALLA CEDAR 



SPRING AND THE SHORE-LARKS SAGE COCK, OR COCK OF 

 THE PLAINS TOWNSEND'S GROUND-SQUIRREL A DIFFICULT 



MARCH THE PRAIRIE HARE CASTLE AND CHIMNEY ROCKS- 

 REACH WALLA-WALLA. 



WE have rejoined the Commission at the Dalles; 

 one party has proceeded up the west or right bank 

 of the Columbia, there to strike off in a northerly 

 direction for Fort Simcoe, in order to reach the 

 point at which the Boundary Line had been 

 abandoned the previous year ; it being more ex- 

 pedient to ascend the Columbia, in order to get 

 east of the Cascades, than it was to transport so 

 large a party, with mules, across their serried 

 heights 



We are to keep on the left bank of the Co- 

 lumbia, proceeding first to Walla- walla ; thence, 



