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but the object of one party was utterly frustrated 

 by the loss of the tin box, whose bearer soon 

 recovered from the five gashes he had received in 

 his head. They therefore all proceeded to the 

 Oakanagan, on whose banks they found Mr. David 

 Stuart and Mr. Ross well and flourishing, and after 

 a stay of two or three days at the little station, 

 they started for Astoria, accompanied by the 

 former gentlemen. 



On their journey down, after the forks of the 

 Columbia had been passed, the inmates of the 

 leading canoe were astonished to hear a voice from 

 the bank hailing them in English, and on looking 

 round, saw two miserable men entirely naked. In 

 great wonder they paddled to the shore, and found 

 these unhappy people to be Mr. Crooks and John 

 Day, the Kentucky hunter. 



I mentioned a few pages farther back that six of 

 Mr. Hunt's party had not yet arrived at Astoria, 

 having become so reduced by famine and exhaustion 

 that the leader was compelled, for the preservation 

 of the majority, to abandon them amongst the 

 rocky defiles of the Snake River, This happened 

 in December of the previous year, and the situation 

 of these unfortunate people was rendered yet more 

 precarious, owing to the main party having forcibly 

 possessed themselves of the horses belonging lo a 

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