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CRUISINGS IN THE CASCADES 



The house has four windows and one door, a shingle 

 roof and a board floor. They have a cooking-stove, 

 several chairs, a table, cupboard, etc. The bedstead 

 on which I slept was homemade, but neat and sub- 

 stantial. It was furnished with a white cotton tick, 



GEORGE AXD MARY. 



filled with straw, feather pillows, several clean-look- 

 ing blankets, and a pair of moderately clean cotton 

 sheets. I have slept in much worse-looking beds 

 in hotels kept by white people. 



This Indian village, Harrison river, or Skowlitz, 

 as the Indians call both the river and the village, is 

 composed of about twenty families, living in houses 



