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with this part of the river, I hired an Indian of the place to pilot my canoe 

 and after landing her safe below, I paid with a few crumbs of tobacco and 

 a smoke from my own pipe. As I had nothing to cook I ate some crumbs 

 of dried meat and salmon, and when I wanted to smoke kindled my pipe 

 with my lens, so I was not under the necessity of making a stay to kindle 

 a fire. Keached the top of the Priest Rapids at six o'clock, and although 

 late I undertook to run the canoe down, making my old guide (they were 

 father and son) carry my little parcels, he being tired. Night stole in on 

 me too soon, and I was obliged to camp on the north side of the river in the 

 middle of the rapid ; four and a half miles. 



Friday, 25th. I could not leave my encampment before daylight, 

 having still four and a half miles of very bad water. I had left by land an 

 hour before the canoe, and, after waiting nearly an hour at the foot of the 

 rapid, as my guides did not make their appearance I became alarmed for their 

 safety and returned, when I discovered them about a mile and a half above 

 where I halted, comfortably seated in a small cove treating some of their 

 friends to a smoke with some tobacco I had given them the preceding 

 evening. As I had now a fine sheet of water without any rapids, but a very 

 powerful current, I went rapidly on, like the day before scarcely out of my 

 canoe, and (arrived at Wallawallah, the establishment near Lewis and 

 Clarke's River, at sundown. I felt so much reduced that I was too weak to 

 eat, and after informing Mr. Black of my going to the sea and asking him 

 to procure me two guides to carry me to the Great Falls in the morning, 

 I laid myself down to rest on aheap of firewood, to be free from mosquitoes- 

 Saturday, 2Qth. Wrote to Mr. McDonald by the old guide and gave him 

 ten charges of ammunition and a little tobacco to buy his food on the way 

 home, and after obtaining a larger canoe from Mr. Black in lieu of my 

 present one, and two guides, I took my leave for the sea at six o'clock. 

 At the foot of a rapid twenty-five miles below I purchased a fresh 

 salmon, the half of which I roasted on a stick for breakfast and reserved 

 the other half for next day, lest I should not get anything. As I knew all 

 the bad places of the river, I went on all night drifting before the stream, 

 taking the steering in turn, and as I had to pass a camp of Indians who are 

 noted pillagers, made me anxious to pass during the night, which I 

 accomplished. 



Sunday, 21th. Precisely at noon I reached the Great Falls, and finding 

 my canoe too heavy to carry over the rocks I left it and hired one to carry 

 me to the Dalles six miles below. Here I purchased a pair of horns of a 

 male grey sheep of the voyageurs, for which I paid three balls and powder 

 to fire them. The Indian had the skin dressed, forming a sort of shirt, but 

 refused it me unless I should give him mine in return, which at present I 

 cannot spare. On the Dalles were at least from five hundred to seven 

 hundred persons. I learned that the chief Pawquanawaka, who would 

 have been my last guide to the sea, was not at home ; but as I am now 

 in my own province again, and understand the language tolerably well 

 I had no difficulty in procuring two, and was glad to find one who was 

 well known to me. While he and his companion brought the canoe down 

 the Dalles, after being refreshed with a few nuts and whortleberries 



