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encamp just above the portage at 4 past 5 p.m. in order to gum our 
boats. See very few Indians. 
24th.—Fine weather. Start at 5 a.m. Sail all day with a fresh 
breeze and encamp about half way up the Grand Dalles! Indians not 
- numerous about us—however we find it necessary to keep watch all 
night. Prepare and load our muskets. 
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25th.—Tolerable weather. Got over the Grande Dalles by a little 
after eight a.m. having carried our baggage from our last night’s en- 
campment. Lighten at the little Dalles Portage. Then proceed to the 
Chutes which we clear by 5 p.m., but few Indians on the Portage. 
Here Mr. Manson? and party take leave of us to return to Fort Van- 
couver. Leaving the Chutes hoist sail with a strong breeze and proceed 
till 7 o’clock when we encamp some distance below John Day’s 
River. 
26th.—Fine weather. Hoist sail this morning with a very strong 
breeze which continues all day and obliges us to reef half our sails. 
Encamp about 5 miles below the Long Island at + past 6 p.m. 
27th, Thursday.—Fine weather. Start at + past 4 am. A light 
breeze assists in pushing us forward all day. Encamp at 4 past 6 about 
a league above the Grand Rapid. See a good many geese to-day but 
kill none. Very few Indians along the river. 
28th.—Fine weather. Arrive at Walla Walla before 8 a.m. 
Delivered over to Mr. Black*® 5 Barrels Potatoes, 1 two gn. Keg Butter 
and a Ham—supplied also 1 keg Jama. Rum, 1 galln. out of the voyage 
stores, Mr. B. being entirely destitute of that article—made over to 
this place two men, Fallardeau and J. B. Dubois—the former was 
appointed by Doctor MeLoughlin to be exchanged for Bouche, but this 
! For notes respecting localities see eastward journey in 1827, pages 70-93. 
? Donald Manson, Chief Trader; entered the H. B. Co’s. service, 1817; crossed the 
Rocky mountains in 1823; 1823-25 in Cassiar dist., B.C., and the Athabaska dist.; at 
Fort Vancouver, April 1825; in charge of Fort George after completion of fort 
Vancouver; assisted in erection of Fort Langley, B.C., 1827, and in the erection of 
fort Simpson, B.C., in 1829; in charge of fort McLoughlin, 1830-39; of Kamloops, 
1841-42; Superintendent of New Caledonia, 1844-56. “ Energetic and as zealous for 
his employer’s interests, his excitable temperament and his frequent recourse to ‘club 
law,’ as Sir George Simpson was wont to dub the kind of mitigated terrorism which 
obtained throughout the district during his management, . . . . . deprived his 
exertions of much of their legitimate results by alienating the hearts of his own 
men and of the natives.” (Morice, Northern Interior of British Columbia, 
238). 
3 Samuel Black; a Chief Factor, 1838; in 1841, he was assassinated by the 
nephew of Wanquille (or Tranquille), a friendly neighbouring chief, for having 
charmed his uncle’s life away. 
