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separately, communicating with them through Mr. C. W. Durkee, and he 

 through the Wetchpeck Indian from the junction of Klamath and Trinity . . . 

 The number of Indians living near this camp, around the mouth of Salmon 

 river, is about 225 souls, all told. They compare favorably in size and appear- 

 ance, and intelligence, with the Indians below; speak a different dialect, though 

 they intermarry with them. Their houses are built of slabs split out from 

 redwood timber, in which a family of ten or fifteen will reside, relying principally 

 upon fish for a subsistence. 



The following" day, October 13, ihe party was in "Camp on 

 Klamath river, 12 miles al)Ove mouth of Salmon river." The trail 

 over which they passed that day was difficult and dangerous, and 

 "several of our animals fell from the trail and rolled down the 

 mountain, but were recovered and brought into camp." Gibbs made 

 another sketch of the rugged mountain scenery. 



"Camp in Scott's valley, October 21, iSji . . . Our route to-day 

 led up the Klamath river to the north of Scott's river ; thence up 

 Scott's river to Scott's bar, where a large number of miners have 

 been and are at work; thence crossing Scott's river, and over a 

 high, steep mottntain into this valley ..." The party remained in 

 the valley several days, during which time the surrounding cotmtry 

 was examined. On the 24th "Messrs. Gibbs, Kelsey, and Woods 

 have been sent out to explore and examine this valley, and adjacent 

 hills and mountains, relative to its adaptation for an Indian reserva- 

 tion." Two days later, October 26, "Mr. George (iibbs was des- 

 patched to Shasta plains to examine that part of the country." 



"Camp in Scott's valley, October 2/, 7(^5/.— This is the day 

 appointed for the Indians in Shasta and Scott's valleys, and on 

 Scott's river, to assemble at this camp . . . The citizens of Shasta 

 Butte city assembled." '' 



Remained in Scott's valley until November 6, when they "com- 

 menced the march for the coast by the same trail we came over 

 from Durkee's ferry." Continued on through the mountains and on 

 November 11 "crossed to the east side of the. Klamath at an Indian 

 rancheria, swimming our animals — no accidents." 



''November 12, i8f)i. — Detained some time this morning getting 

 our mules from the mountain, and crossing our goods over in canoes : 

 swimming the mules over, they Ijecame alarmed, and two were 

 drowned. This to us is a serious loss . . . Started at 10 o'clock, and 

 reached our old camp 'Coratem,' near the mouth of Salmon river, at 4." 

 And the next morning "Mr. Gil)bs and myself took a canoe and 

 three Indians this morning and descended the river, passing many 



^" On July 30, 1852, McKee wrote to Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian 

 Affairs, Washington, and referred to happenings "in the neighborhood of 

 Yraka (late Shasta Butte city)." (P. 353.) 



