[ERMATINGER] YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL 73 
28th.—The Boat arrives at Walla Walla by 11 0’clock a.m. Ouvré 
also arrives on foot having recovered the gun with the aid of Tomas 
Tippurrs! (the Walla Walla chief) wife. The Boat having been pitched 
and our business at this place settled, we resume our journey at + past 
3 p.m. Encamp at 6 o’clock 4 or 5 miles below Lewis and Clark’s 
river? 1 bag of lead embarked for Spokane’ from Walla Walla. 
29th.—Heavy shower of rain in the evening—day fine. Start at 
5a.m. Pole all day. Encamp 8 or 9 miles up what fs termed the Marle 
Banks‘ at the head of an island. 
30th.—Rain nearly all day. Embark at 4 past 4 a.m. Encamp 
at 6 p.m. about 2 miles above the Marle Banks—2 geese and 1 rabbit 
killed to-day by the walking party. 
31st.—Fine weather. Proceed at + past 4a.m. At 11 o’elock Mr. 
A. McDonald meets us with letters from N. Caledonia informing that 
their people go out by the new route®. He returns with us. Proceed 
+ way up the Priest’s Rapid’ and encamp at + past 6 p.m. 
April— 
Sunday 1st.—Fine weather. The Boat continues her progress up 
the Rapids (which are very bad this year, the water being remarkably 
low) at } past 5 a.m. Clear the Rapids by 11 o’clock. Proceed up the 
River and encamp at 4 past 6 p.m. about 12 or 15 miles above. Hire an 
Indian canoe to carry some of the passengers. 


‘See Ross Cox’, Adventures, pp. 82-83. 
* The Lewis or Snake river; sometimes called Nez Perce river, also, Shahaptin 
river. 
# Spokane House on Spokane river, 9 miles N.N.W. of Spokane ac present 
“Nine-mile power plant.” 
* Banks of marl; a rich earth or clay often used as a fertilizer or for cement; 
called by the voyageurs, from their colour, les Terres Jaunes. 
5 Archd. McDonald, afterwards (1842) a Chief Factor; on retirement, lived at 
St. Andrews, Que., where his house “Glencoe,” still stands. Mr. MeDonald was ac- 
cidentally drowned in the Ottawa while driving on the ice. 
$ The Yellowhead or Leather pass. Morice says: “in 1827, he [George McDougall] 
had accompanied the New Caledonia packet bound for the east through Téte Jaune 
Cache, then freshly discovered, which was to become famous in the annals of the 
Hudson’s Bay Company west of the Rockies” (Northern British Columbia, 157). 
7 Priest rapid: next above the Snake river; is three miles below the northern 
boundary of Yakima county, Wash. So named by “ David Stuart of the Pacific Fur 
Co. and his people, who saw at this spot, in 1811, as they were ascending the river, 
a number of savages, one of whom was performing on the rest certain aspersions and 
other ceremonies, which had the air of being coarse imitations of the Catholie wor- 
ship.” (Franchere’s Narrative 276-7). This rapid is 10 miles long, and descends 
70 feet. 
