40 EXPLORATION OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
Walla, and asked permission to go east and tell the 
people of the value of the country, and ask aid to colon- 
ize it, against the Hudson Bay Company. The meeting 
objected to his scheme as political, and urged him to 
remain and devote himself to missionary work. He re- 
plied ‘‘I was a man before I became a missionary ; I did 
not lose my manhood when I became one.’’? He left 
Walla Walla October 3d. His journey was amarvel. A 
lad was his companion with a guide. Lost in the moun- 
tains, swimming icy rivers, reaching the frontiers, gath- 
ering there recruits for his settlement, who were to meet 
him on his return, he went to Washington, enlisted the 
interest of President Tyler, Daniel Webster, and officers 
of the government, then visited Boston, where the society 
agreed to everything Whitman asked. 
W hitman returned with eight hundred emigrants with 
wagons and fifteen hundred head of cattle, who dispersed 
themselves in the valley of the Willamette, the garden 
of the earth. Here are grown all the tropical products. 
The speaker had never elsewhere seen wheat produce 
a hundred fold, but had seen forty fold. Here a single 
grain spouts one hundred and twenty-three stalks with 
one hundred full heads on them, or four thousand fold. 
Thus the country was taken possession of. 
In 1842 at Walla Walla was held what was called the 
‘* Wolf meeting’”’ to devise ways and means for protect- 
ing stock. A Yankee present suggested protection of 
themselves against the Hudson Bay Company, and pro- 
posed action to that end. A vote was taken and one 
majority for the Yankee idea given. When Whitman 
came back with his eight hundred followers, the Yankee 
triumphed, with the result that the 4th parallel was made 
the northern boundary. 
At the completion of the address a vote of thanks to 
Dr. Mowry was moved by Dr. W. G. Stevenson, and 
unanimously passed. 
No business meeting was held. 
