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make a fine figure, particularly when a little red and green earth is added 

 to the upper part of the face. Mr. McLeod much engaged all day making 

 arrangements for his journey to the country to the south of this river, where 

 two small rivers and one large one are said to exist. While he is in that 

 quarter I propose, should I keep well, to resume my route towards the 

 headwaters of this river, where I have no doubt of finding out some 

 varieties. Centrenose, the principal chief of the upper country, came to 

 our camp in the afternoon, and in the morning Mr. McLeod is (through 

 his interpreters) to arrange with him to accompany me or send some 

 of his sons. Find myself improving fast. Evening fine, but cloudy. 



Monday, 23rd. Morning cloudy and calm. Last night after supper 

 Mr. McLeod kindly spoke to the chief for his son to accompany me to the 

 upper country while he went with himself along the coast, to which he 

 agreed. The road being very hilly, woody, and difficult to pass over, I did 

 not think it necessary to accept of any more horses than what would 

 carry my blanket and paper, which were two one for my guide and one for 

 the articles. Started at ten o'clock and passed along the same side of the 

 river and crossed at the chief's lodge where I was some days ago. They 

 readily carried me across in the canoe and behaved very civilly. Made a 

 short stay and crossed over the same point of land to the place where I 

 attempted making a raft and without success, where I killed a small doe 

 which gave me a little hope at the beginning of my march. My guide, by 

 kindling a small fire, brought two men and a canoe from their lodge two 

 miles above, round a thick woody point, who instantly took me across and 

 guided the horses to a shallow part of the river where they forded it and 

 received no injury. Proceeded on the opposite side and camped a short 

 distance from the lodge. I could not utter a single syllable, but by signs 

 they kindled my fire, brought me water, nuts, roots of Phalangium Quamash, 1 

 and the sort of meal made of the Syngenesious plant spoken of before and 

 some salmon-trout. Finding them not only hospitable but kind in the 

 extreme, I gave them all the flesh of the deer except one shoulder, some 

 presents of beads, rings, and tobacco. Rain in the afternoon but fine and 

 clear in the evening. On the rocky and gravelly shores of the river, I 

 observed a shrubby species of Lupinus: leaflets five, seven, nine, lanceolate, 

 silky on both sides ; 2 to 4 feet high ; I could find none in a perfect state. 



Tuesday, 24fA. Morning cloudy, raw, and dull. My new friends had 

 during the night gone to a small rapid a mile below for the purpose of 

 spearing trout for me and awoke me this morning long ere day to eat. 

 Left my camp at daylight, and passed a low level rich plain four miles long, 

 along the banks of the river, where I entered a thick wood five miles broad 

 and came again on a bend of the river, where I stayed a short time to refresh 

 my horses, being noon ; and although having only made nine miles they 

 were much fatigued by the last five being through deep gullies, rocky and 

 obstructed by fallen timber. About two o'clock resumed my course due 

 east over a bare hill 3000 feet above the level of the river, and on gaining 

 the other side crossed a small stream twenty-five or thirty yards broad, 

 shallow but rapid, where I entered a second point of wood three miles 

 1 Camassia esculenta, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 257. 



