CONTENTS. VU 



Kiikatat Indians — Manner of flattening the head — A Flathead infant — - 

 Brig " May Dacre" — Preparations for a settlement — Success of the natural- 

 ists — Chinook Indians — their appearance and costume — Ague and fever — 

 Desertion of the Sandwich Islanders — Embarkation for a trip to the Islands — 

 George, the Indian pilot — Mount Coffin — A visit to the tombs— Superstition — 

 Visit to an Indian house — Fort George— Site of Astoria — A blind Indian 

 boy — Cruel and unfeeling conduct of the savages — their moral character — 

 Baker's Bay— Cape Disappointment — Dangerous bar at the entrance of the 

 river — The sea beach — Visit of Mr. Ogden — Passage across the bar — Sea 

 birds — Landsmen at sea — A sperm, whale — Albatrosses, &c. — Tropic birds — 

 A " school" of whales — Dolphins — Make the Sandwich Islands — Oahu —A 

 rhapsody, 170 



Chapter XI. Honoruru — Canoes — Amphibious habits —Capt. Charlton, H.B. 

 M. consul — Mr. Jones, the American consul — reception by him — Description 

 of the town, and of the natives — Party-colored hair of the women — The pa- 

 goda — A visit from Kev. Hiram Bingham, the missionary — Opinions regard- 

 ing the missionary fraternity — First view of the king, Kauikeaouli — his 

 train — Seamen's chapel — A visit to the native church — Kinau and Keku- 

 anoa — Orderly conduct of the natives during worship — Introduction to the 

 king — His fondness for the chase, and athletic exercises — Native food — Man- 

 ner of eating — The runii-rumi — its efficacy — A Lu-au party — The valley of 

 Nuano — A visit to the Pari — The last battle of Tamehameha — A feast — 

 Manner of cooking — A party of native ladies — An adventure, . . 191 



Chapter XII. Visit to the island of Kauai — A royal call — Rev. P. J. 

 Gulick, — Description of the island — A present from Kauikeaouli — Royal 

 mode of obtaining supplies — Birds — Native method of catching them — The 

 travellers wind-bound — Shell hunting — Habits of the natives— Beach food, 

 and mode of eating it — Visit of the king, and governor Kekeoeva — Charac- 

 teristics of the latter — Anxiety of the king to return home — Arrival of his 

 followers — A metamorphosis — A royal supper — Evening service— Royal 

 guard — A sail in sight — Joy of the king— His letter — Return of the Avon — 

 Departure from Kauai, and arrival at Oahu — A pic-nic party at Pearl river — 

 Calabash dance by the natives — Departure for Columbia river — A primitive 

 passage to the shore — A storm at sea— A flight of shore birds — Land ahead — 

 Arrival at the Columbia, . . 205 



Chapter XIII. Passage up the Columbia— Birds — A trip to the Wallammet — 



Methodist missionaries — their prospects — Fort William— Band-tail pigeons 



Wretched condition of the Indians at the falls — A Kallapooyah village In- 

 dian cemetery — Superstitions — Treatment of diseases — Method of steaming — 



" Making medicine" — Indian sorcerers — Death of Thornburg — An inquest 



Verdict of the jury — Inordinate appetite for ardent spirits — Eight men 

 drowned— Murder of two trappers by the Bannsck Indians— Arrival of Cap- 

 tain Thing — His meeting and skirmish with the Blackfeet Indians — Mas- 

 sacre — A narrow escape, 218 



Chapter XIV. Indians of the Columbia — Departure of Mr. Nuttall and Dr. 

 Gairdner — Arrival of the Rev. Samuel Parker — his object — Departure of .he 

 American brig — Swans — Indian mode of taking them — A large wolf — A 

 night adventure — A discovery, and restoration of stolen property — Fraternal 

 tenderness of an Indian — Indian vengeance — Death of Waskema, the Indian 

 girl— "Busy-body ," the little chief— A village of Kowalitsk Indians— Cere- 

 mony of" making medicine"— Exposure of an impostor — Success of legiti- 

 mate medicines — Departure from Fort Vancouver for a visit to the interior — 

 Arrival of a stranger — "Cape Horn" — Tilki, the Indian dhief—Indian vil- 



