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Our route to-day has been through a rocky and broken country, and after a march of 32 miles 
we encamped on a small stream called En-cha-rae-nae, flowing from the lake where we last 
halted, near a number of large natural mounds. Here we met with a discharged servant of 
the Hudson Bay Company and his family, on their way to the old Presbyterian mission on 
the Spokane river. 
November 1.—Our course lay down the valley of the En-cha-rae-nae, a rugged way beset 
with deep clefts in the volcanic rocks. We crossed the Peluse river near the mouth of the 
En-cha-rae-nae, and near the stream flowing from the never-freezing lake En-chush-chesh-she- 
luxum, and twelve miles from the mouth of the Peluse. Four miles from our place of crossing the 
Peluse runs through a deep сайоп, surrounded by isolated volcanic buttes, to its junction with 
Snake river. We met two Peluse Indians on the En-cha-rae-nae, who informed Garry that there 
were no Indians at the junction of the Peluse. They accompanied us to assist in crossing 
our animals and baggage. On the Peluse we fell in with two lodges of Indians, and saw a large 
number of horses belonging to another camp just arrived from up the river. 
At 2 p. m. we arrived at the mouth of the Peluse river, (see sketch) and, crossing Snake 
river, we encamped on its southern bank, several Peluse Indians accompanying us, and among 
them a chief from a band but a few miles distant from our camp, Wi-ti-my-hoy-she. He 
exhibited a medal of Thomas Jefferson, dated 1801, given to his grandfather, as he alleges, by 
Lewis and Clark. 
Not having visited them myself, the following description of the falls of the Peluse was 
kindly furnished me by Mr. Stanley, who saw them in the year 1847: 
FALLS OF THE PELUSE. 
The Peluse river flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a 
_ thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes. There is по 
timber along the course of this stream, and but few willow or other bushes; yet the soil is 
fertile, and the grass nutritious and abundant even in winter. The fall of water, which is 
about 30 feet wide, cannot be seen from any distant point ; for flowing through a fissure in the 
basaltic rock, portions of which tower above in jagged pinnacles, it suddenly descends some 
125 feet into a narrow basin, and thence flows rapidly away through a deep cafion from a point 
from which the annexed view was sketched. The distance from the falls to Snake river is about 
nine miles. The valley widens considerably for about half a mile from the mouth of the 
Peluse. The home of the Peluse Indians is near this junction, where they devote much of 
their time to salmon fishing. The salmon ascend to the falls ; but these Indians have a legend 
which tells of the wickedness of the Indians higher up the country, and how the Great Spirit, 
in his displeasure, placed the falls as a barrier to the further ascent of the salmon. 
November 2.—I have referred, іп an early stage of this narrative, to the condition of my 
health, and will state that not a day was I on the road from Fort Benton to this point that I 
did not suffer much. The day I made my long ride to Colville, I was so feeble and exhausted 
that, on making my noon halt after moving fifteen miles, I was obliged to have my bed spread 
in order to rest; but the idea of meeting gentlemen so soon, from whom I had so long been 
Separated, enid me to bear the fatigues of my afternoon fifty miles ride to Colville. Although 
in great suffering, I determined to move with Garry from Snake river to Fort Walla-Walla 
to-day, leaving Mr. Stanley to come on with my party and train in two days. І desired to save 
a day, in order to collect information at Walla-Walla, and to visit the Walla-Walla valley. 
