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lages— Arrival at Fort Walla-walla— Sharp-tailed grouse— Commencement 



of a journey to the Blue mountains, 231 



Chaptek XV. A village ofKayouse Indians— Appearance and dresses of the 

 women— family worship— Visit to the Blue mountains— Dusky grouse— Re- 

 turn to Walla-walla— Arrival of Mr. McLeod, and the missionaries— Letters 

 from home— Death of Antoine Goddin— A renegado white man— Assault by 

 the Walla-walla Indians — Passage down the Columbia— Rapids — A dog for 

 supper— Prairies on fire— Fishing Indians— Their romantic appearance — 

 Salmon huts—The shoots — Dangerous navigation— Death of Tilki— Seals- 

 Indian stoicism and contempt of pain— Skookoom, the strong chief— his 

 death— Maiming, an evidence of grief— Arrival at Fort Vancouver — A visit 

 to Fort George— Indian cemeteries — Lewis and Clarke's house — A medal — 

 Visit to Chinook — Hospitality of the Indians— Chinamus' home — The idol — 

 Canine inmates, • 245 



Chapteii XVI. Northern excursion — Salmon — Indian mode of catching 

 them — Flathead children — A storm on the bay — Pintail ducks — Simple 

 mode of killing salmon — Return to Chinook — Indian garrulity — Return to 

 Fort George — Preparations for a second trip to the Sandwich Islands — De- 

 tention within the cape — The tropics, and tropic birds — Make the island of 

 Maui — Arrival at Oahu — Accession to the society — A visit to the king — 

 Illness of the princess, Harieta Nahienaena — Abrupt exit of the king — A ride 

 to Waititi — Cocoanut grove — Native mode of climbing — Death of the 

 princess — grief of her people — barbarous ceremonies — Residence in the valley 

 of Nuano — A visit to the palace — Kahiles — Coffin of the princess, and inscrip- 

 tion — Ap[)urtenances — Ceremony of carrying the body to the church — Des- 

 cription of the pageant — Dress of the king — Conclusion of the ceremony, 259 



Chapter XVII. Embarkation for a tour of the islands — Lahaina — Forts — La- 

 hainaluna — Missionaries of Maui — High school — Karakakua bay — Kairua — 

 Cook's rock — Reverence of the natives for his memory — Cook's monument — 

 Kawaihae — Colossal mountains — Mrs. Young — Heiau, or native temple — 

 Human sacrifices— Morai — Heathenish rites — A cargo of cattle — Unsavory 

 practice of the native women — Departure from Oahu — A sail by moonlight — 

 Dean's island — A " complaisant" — Arrival at Tahiti — Native pilot — Papeete 

 hay — Appearance of the shore — Orange groves, &c. — A young native song- 

 ster — Visit to the queen — Native service — The chapel — A bedridden Tahai- 

 tian — Jungle fowls — Leave the harbor — Dangerous navigation — A narrow 

 escape — A shipwreck, 275 



Chapteii XVIII. Island of Eimeo — Juan Fernandez— Make the coast of 

 Chili — Town of Valparaiso — suburbs — Indisposition — Kindness of the fo- 

 reign residents, &c.— Preparation by the government for an expedition 

 against Peru— Foreign adventurers— Disaffection of Vidaurre and other 

 officers in the Chilian army— Murder of Signor Portales by the rebels — Pre- 

 paration for invading the town of Valparaiso— A battle— defeat of the insur- 

 gents—Capture and imprisonment of Vidaurre and seven officers— Florine, 

 the murderer— Sentence of the court martial— A military execution— Ap- 

 pearance of the bodies after death— Sail for the United States— Cape Horn— 

 Pernambuco— Cape Henlopen— A gale— Arrival at Philadelphia, . 295 



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