[ERMATINGER] YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL 111 
Made portage with Boats and Cargoes at the Grand Rapid which 
occupied us above 2 hours. Encamped at + past 5 o’clock. 
18th, Thursday.—Fine weather. Started at 4 a.m. passed the 
Spokane Forks! at 4 past 10. Encamped at 4 past 5. 
19th.—Fine weather. Started at + past 5 and arrived at Okanagan? 
about 1 p.m. Mr. A. McDonald arrived shortly after us from Thomp- 
son’s River.’ 
. 20th.—Fine weather. Mr. McDonald’st men having arrived this 
afternoon with Salmon which we have to take to Nez Perces’ we load 
our boats and went and encamped at the Fork of the little River. We 
left at Okanagan the Pigs and a bale of Leather which we brought from 
Colville and we take in for Nez Perces 15 bales Dried Salmon. The 
two boats are thus loaded. 
No. 2 No. 1 
8 bales Salmon N.P. | 7 bales Salmon N.P. 
3 bags Potatoes “ Provs. 2 bags Potatoes 
1 bagCorn Vaner. 2 Bs. ea. 2 Pemican 2; ~ Corn, Vaner: 
1 bale Parfleches “ 1 Lodge 
1 keg Gum ie Passengers 1 keg Gum 
1 L. Lodge ~ Mr. McLeod’s 2 Cassettes 
1 case family 2 case and basket 
1 cassette family 1 Trading Chest 
1 ps. Flour & Sugar Crew 1 Portmanteau 
1 Trunk 7 men & boy 1 Strap & p. Trunk 
— 3 ps. Rifles 
19 — 
203 
Provs. 
14 Pemican 
1 bale salmon 
Passengers 
Messrs. Todd & E. E. 
Crew 
8 men. 
‘Mouth of Spokane river; Spokane House was situated some distance up this 
river, but below the present city of Spokane. 
? Fort Okanagan was situated on the north side of the Columbia and east side 
of the Okanagan at the junction of the rivers. 
’ Fort Kamloops on Thompson River; at site of present town of Kamloops, B.C. 
* Arch. McDonald; made a Chief Factor in 1842; his first (Indian) wife was a 
daughter of ‘ King’ Comcomly; he lived in later years at “Gencoe,”’ St. Andrews, 
Que.; signed the deed poll of 1834 as Chief Trader. See p. 73. 
5 Or Fort Walla Walla; near the present Wallula and mouth of Wallawalla 
river. 
