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to the establishment. These huts are placed in rows, with broad 

 lanes or streets between them, and the whole looks like a very 

 neat and beautiful village. The most fastidious cleanliness 

 appears to be observed ; the women may be seen sweeping the 

 streets and scrubbing the door-sills as regularly as in our own 

 proverbially cleanly city.* 



Sunday, Septetnber 25th. — Divine service was performed in 

 the fort this morning by Mr. Jason Lee. This gentleman and 

 his nephew had been absent some days in search of a suitable 

 place to establish themselves, in order to fulfil the object of their 

 mission. They returned yesterday, and intend leaving us to- 

 morrow with their suite for the station selected, which is upon the 

 Wallammet river, about sixty miles south of the fort. 



In the evening we were gratified by the arrival of Captain 

 Wyeth from below, who informed us that the brig from Boston, 

 which was sent out by the company to which Wyeth is attached, 

 had entered the river, and was anchored about twenty miles 

 below, at a spot called Warrior's point, near the western entrance 

 of the Wallammet. 



Captain W. mentioned his intention to visit the Wallammet 

 country, and seek out a convenient location for a fort which he 

 wishes to establish without delay, and Mr. N. and myself accept- 

 ed an invitation to accompany him in the morning. He has 

 brought with him one of the brig's boats, and eight oarsmen, five 

 of whom are Sandwich Islanders. 



We have experienced for several days past, gloomy, lowering, 

 and showery weather; indeed the sun has scarcely been seen for 



* I have given this notice of the suburbs of the fort, as I find it in mj- journal 

 written at the time; I had reason, subsequently, to change ray opinion with regard 

 to the scrupulous cleanliness of the Canadians' Indian wives, and particularly after 

 inspecting the internal economy of the dwellings. What at first struck me as neat 

 and clean, by an involuntary comparison of it with the extreme filthincss to which 

 I had been accustomed amongst the Indians, soon revealed itself in its proper light, 

 and I can freely confess that my first estimate was too high. 



