108 
ment of Dr. Whitman, which consisted, a 
this vine pot one adobe sever e., built of 
ee ati to see a fine-looking large family of 
emigrants. women c n, i 
bust ‘health, all indemnifying ca as for 
oe scanty var in a hearty consump- 
are produ and | here of 
sect . We were dis- 
in our expecta of obtaining 
corn or flour at this- station, the mill 
belonging to the having been lately 
burnt down ; but _ erga supply of ex- 
cellent toes regrets, . fu 
nished a ful anbstitute for bread. Asmall 
town of ez Percé ndians gave an inhabited 
and, after remaining about an hour, we c 
ned our route, and a on the riv net 
about ow, passing on the way 
La 
of grass 
morning arri the Nez’ Peres fort, one 
of the trading establishments of the Hudson 
ya a few hundred yards above 
of the Walahwalah with the 
we had first 
Bay © 
the Laces 
somites 
ec , and has” oe nied its fall 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
| shonee, and S 
m a visit to 
ad th 
; sion the Ame 
rance | forest furnish the means of do 
From 
100. miles less 
of 
[1843. 
had been travelling from aes Hall, and 
of s fork, Sho- 
e of. Columbia, 
votes 
o the junction, being 
pre e union of two large 
strea ng 0 e southeast, and 
the other from 7 ‘northeast and meeting in 
what may be treated as the geographic 
centre of the Oeenon vay, thence doubling 
the volume of water to t an, while 
pening two great lines of communication 
with the interior eamtineee constitutes a 
in rene to this junc 
these lines of Soaitinnieation; that this t 
was establish They are important peer? 
m the structure of the country, m 
f 
raine 
The British fur companies 
mericans, in their emigration 
n, have ee to follow the one which 
| ea es ee the United States. Bateans 
from tide water soe to the junction, and 
Sverre high up the North fork, or Columbia. 
porte ai only is used upon the line 
oka? s fork. = the ry ela 
gon, t the "Nez Percé is a point o stor as 
being, to those who choot e it, the term 
of their overland jou 
the river sie ihe them to em- 
bark on its eel ; and the lofty trees of the 
oing so. 
ass to this place is about! 
it i the same 
ox 
i 
whet the Great Platte it woud be about 
r. McKinley, the comm2 of the post, 
Teeth us with great ity ; ‘and both to 
—, Soe a grants whe 
arnt Pocnthin e rights 
of h “resp tality in — comfortable wanar to 
the invited 
By a sedate altitude of the sun, the 
rvation that the wea 
i uth 
mitted 
: we 
A . the tim 
in | siderable body of the 
which we! completed 
