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perscription. We opened it, it contained but a printed 

 sheet of a religious tract. Having performed her errand, 

 she made a slight inclination and passed away. 



The time of the party was likewise occupied in hearing 

 Mr. Mackenzie relate some of the interesting adventures 

 of his life. This gentleman, who is of the family of Sir 

 Alexander Mackenzie, has spent twenty-four years in the 

 Indian trade, and has travelled over the greater part of 

 North America. He wintered as far north as the six- 

 ty-second degree of latitude, on the river which bears the 

 name of his distinguished kinsman. He was one of the 

 party consisting of Messrs. Hunt, Crooks, Stewart, Ma- 

 thews, &c. who in the employ of Mr. John J. Astor, of 

 New York, crossed the Rocky Mountains, and penetrated 

 to the mouth of the Columbia, where they made the first 

 settlement for the American Fur Company. Mr. Mac- 

 kenzie spent ten years on that side of the mountains. In 

 the course of his travels he followed for upwards of six 

 hundred miles the stream usually called, in Lewis and 

 Clarke's travels, the Multnomah, but the true name of 

 which, according to Mr. Mackenzie, is the Wallamut.* Of 

 all these he communicated many interesting particulars, as 

 well as of the animals found in that part of the country. 



We had an interview with an old Chippewa chief, the 

 leader of a party that resides near Red Lake. Although 

 he dwells in the territory of the United States, yet as we 

 met with him on British soil, we confined our conversa- 



* Mr. Henry, a trader, whom we met at Fort William, and who like- 

 wise imparted to us some valuable Information concerning that part of 

 the country, did not consider the Wallamut to be the name of the stream 

 itself, but of a fall of about forty feet, situated in the river, a short dis- 

 tance above its confluence with the Columbia. The river itself has a 

 distinct name, which Mr. Henry could not recollect at the time. 



