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CHAPTER V. 
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 Jeft bank of the Co- 
lumbia, proceeding first to Walla-walla; thence, 
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