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object of my me eapesions had been oa a fales in having connected 
our Inoissanc h the surveys of Captain Wilkes; and although it 
would have teen alas and Ye tathetaty to terminate here also our 
ruder astronornical observations, 1 was not, for such a reason, justified to 
_ make a delay in waiting for favorable weather. 
» Near sunset of the 10th, the boats left the fort, and encamped after 
making only a few miles. Our flotilla consisted of a kinaw barge and 
three canoes—one of them that in which we had desce ded abe river; and 
a party in all of 20 men. One of the emigrants, Mr. Burnet, of Missouri, 
who had left his family and property at the Dalles, availed ahi self of pe 
 peciotr he by the return of our boats to bring them do v 
This gentleman, as well as the Messrs. Applegate, and othe 
the emigrants ‘whom I saw, possessed intelligence and ede wi ; 
mora] and intellectual stamina, as well as the ScD which give 
i ty and respectability to the foundation of colon 
November 11.—The morning was rainy and pect We did not move 
- with the practised celerity of my own camp; and it was near 9 o’clock 
when our motley crew had finished their breakfast and were ready to start. 
Once afloat, however, they worked steadily and well, and we advanced at 
a good rate up the river; and in the afternoon a breeze sprung up, which 
». enabled us to adda sail to the oars. At evening we encamped on a warm- 
looking beach, on the right bank, at the foot of the high river hill, immedi- 
_ ately at the lower end of Cape Horn. On the opposite shore is said to. 
~ © a singular hole in the mountain, from which the Indians believe comes the 
apd producing these gales. It is called the Devil’s hole; and the teas. 
i afag told, ave been resolving to send down one of their slaves to explore 
below. At dark, the wind sl fted into its eats panier, 9 radu- 
ae iicreaion toa gale from the southwest; and ye ok becomir 
I obtained a good observation o of an emersion of the rst asleliite: the result 
of which, being an absolute observation, I have adopted for the longitude 
“of the place. 
November 12. —_The wind during the night had increased to so much 
violence, that the broad river this morning was angry and white; the 
a breaking with considerable force against this en wall of the cape, 
Fold: add oth was: a iting to risk pe boat round the point, 
iw: aazard the Patan ey the delay of 
obt ditein i 
af oon n to appr 30 ; 
ba ish timbered island fab ‘eft itioe: below wh est aiding, 
marked in a bluff on the river a Fated.» TERED of tr trees 
fing to be imbedded in the peek app here this afternoon, I 
! nt a stratum of coal and forest 
