,  teme7 pare j 
i 2S apa “te fae Patty Fhad periceds at Vancouver a ss of 
18} eé mon consisting prine 
rov of flour 
eae lt jatter uot belly used in paar and, in sks to this, 
_ Thad hased at the mission some California cattle, ‘which were to be 
* driven onthe hoof. We had 104 mules and horses—part of the latter pro- 
‘cured from the Indians about the mission ; and for the sustenance of which, 
* ourreliance was upon the grass which we should find, and the soft kd 
wood, which was to be its substitute when there was none, 
Mr. Fitzpatrick, with Mr. Talbot and the remainder of our plksoyl: ‘arriv- 
ed on the 2ist; and the camp was now closely Sicemel: in the labor of 
Bas oe 3 Mr. Perkins succeeded in obtaining as a guide to the Tlamath 
: ians—one of whom had been there, and ‘bore the marks of 
‘wounds he had received from some of the Indians in the neighbor- 
md; and the other went along for company. In order to enable us to 
fain horses, he despatched ‘messengers to the various Indian villages in 
» the neighborhood, informing them that we were desirous to awe and 
app saitaee a day for them to bring them in. 
ne Wee seed in the mean time, several Secasjone in the vicinity. Mr. 
Pe ralked with Mr- Preuss and myself to nine miles 
1 th pecans side ¢ of the: river, whence, i in fine weather, an exten 
ay be : g seven great peaks of the 
Cascade ran but el his occasion, d 
icipated pleas-. 
ure,and we = obaiisied ones ade to three that sberae tails ‘Mount Reg- 
hier, St. Helens,and Mount Hood. On the ‘heights, about one mile south 
-of the-mission, a very fine view may be had of Mount Hood and St. Helens. . 
In order to determine their positions with as much mecuneree as es 
! fren xed po distances of the Sm were measured with the sex 
h they 
CiPaetsitearos saan eruey Tone 
haere are valuable for hardihood and great endurance. 
November 24.—At this place one of the men was discharged : cand’ Hoche 
Mveucst of Mr. Perkins, a Chinook Indian, a lad of nineteen, who was’ex- 
tremely desirous to “see the whites,” and make some acquaintance with 
" our institutions, was paca into the pores e, with 
the semana that I would again return him to to his friends. He had 
ved for irene ime Perkias, sed spoke afew wards 
| avai early; in’ the oles, of turningto- 
25a-We were 
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liant eae the morning - valde , 
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