218 NARKATIVE OF A JOUKNKY 



CHAPTER XIII. 



I'assage up the Columbia — Jiirds — ^d trip to the IVallammet — Methodist mis- 

 sionaries — their prospects — Fort TVillia?n — Band-tail pigeons — Wretched 

 condition of the Indians at the falls — A Kallapooyah village — Indian 

 cemetery — Superstitions — Treatment of diseases — JMethcd of steaming — 

 " JMaking medicine^^ — Indian sorcerers — An interruption of festivities — 

 Death of Thornburg — An inquest — Verdict of the Jury — Inordinate appetite 

 for ardent spirits — JVlisfortunes of the American Compani/ — Eight men 

 dro-wned — Murder of two trappers by the Banneck Indians — Arrival of 

 Captain Thing — His meeting and skirmish with the Blackfeet Indians — 

 Massacre — A narroiu escape. 



On the 16th, we anchored abreast of Oak point. Our decks 

 were almost immediately crowded with Indians to welcome us, 

 and among them we recognised many faces with which we were 

 familiar. Chinamus, the Chinook chief, was the principal of 

 these, who, with his wife, Aillapust, or Sally, as she is called at 

 the fort, paid us an early visit, and brought us red deer and 

 sturgeon to regale upon after our voyage. 



On the afternoon of the next day, we ran up to Warrior's 

 point, the brig's old mooring ground. The people here had been 

 anxious to see us ; extensive preparations had been made to pro- 

 secute the salmon fishery, and the coopers have been engaged the 

 whole winter in making barrels to accommodate them. Mr. 

 Walker, the missionaries' quondam associate, was in charge of 

 the post, and he informed us that Captain Wyeth had returned 

 only a few weeks since from the upper country, where he had 

 been spending the winter, engaged in the arduous business of 



