labours being materially retarded by the 
rainy weather. As there were no houses 
yet built on this new station, I first occu- 
pied a tent which was kindly offered me, 
and then removed to a lodge of deer-skin, 
which soon however became too small for 
me in consequence of the augmentation of 
my collections, and where also I found some 
difficulty in drying my plants and seeds. 
A hut constructed of the bark of Thuja oc- 
cidentalis was my next habitation, and there 
I shall probably take up my winter quarters. 
I have only been in a house three nights 
since my arrival in North- West America, 
and these were the first after my debarka- 
tion. On my journeys I occupy a tent 
wherever it is practicable to carry one; 
which however is not often, so that a canoe 
turned upside down, is my occasional shel- 
ter; but more frequently I lie under the 
boughs of a Pine Tree, without any thing 
further. In England, people shiver at the 
idea of sleeping with a window open; here 
each person takes his blanket and stretches 
himself, with all possible complacency, on 
the sand, or under a bush, as may happen, 
just as if he were going to bed. I must 
confess that although I always stood this 
bivouacking remarkably well, and experi- 
enced no bad effects from it, I at first re- 
garded it with a sort of dread, but now ha- 
. bit has rendered the practice so comfortable 
to me, that I look upon any thing more as 
B me Eneas: 
I again 
= — on the 19th, for the purpose ot ascend- 
bibens of the Columbia. This i is a very 
. fine stream, with remarkably fertile banks ; 
yän miles above its junction with the 
Columbia, are Falls of forty-three feet per- 
pendicular height, over which the whole 
breadth of the river is precipitated, forming 
one unbroken sheet at this season of the 
year, but in spring and autumn divided into 
three channels. There i is but little current 
over the Falls is no small undertaking. I 
killed several of the Cervus leucurus, or 
ig White-tailed Deer, as well as some of 
DOUGLAS' SKETCH OF A JOURNEY TO THE 
the Black-tailed kind, C. macrotis, 
days farther took me to the village 
Calapoori Indians, a peaceful well dis 
people, twenty-four miles above the 
and where I formed my camp for se 
days. A hunting party — eu ” 
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tains. Near my encampment was as 
spring, to which the deer frequently reso 
as well as a beautiful ringed species 
lumba, whose elegant movements 
picking up and licking the saline pa 
that were found round the edge, afforded 
great amusement. In the extensive pla 
bounded on the West by the moun s 
woody part of the coast, and on the East, 
high mountains, as also on the banks of 
River Sandiam, one of the rapid branci 
of the Multnomak, grows abundance of th 
Escholtzia Californica, (Bot. Reg. t. n 
Bot. Mag. t. 2887.), also Iris tenaz, 4 
Reg. t. 1218, Bot. Mag. t. 3343.), Nicol 
multivalvis (Bot. Reg. t. 1067.), two 
species of Trichostemma, and many o! 
delightful plants. I procured some cur 
kinds of Myorus, Mus, Arctomys, à ! 
species of Canis, of singular habits, and 
genus of animals which had been hith 
undescribed (probably Geomys bu 
of Richardson's Fauna Boreali- Am 
na). In the tobacco pouches of the n: i 
I found the seedsofa remarkably urge? 
which they eat as nuts, and from who 
learned that it grows on the mountains 
the South ; no time was lost in ascertal 
the existence of this truly grand tree, W 
I named Pinus Lambertiana ; but no. 
fect seeds could I find, and I returned 
my rendezvous at Fort Vancouver, T! 
fraught with the treasures I had co: 
A few days were devoted to arranging 
last collection, and drying the seeds I 
gathered, when, without loss of time, on 
5th of Sept., having engaged a chief as 
guide, and accompanied by one Cana d 
I started on a journey to the Grand B 
Two days were consumed in seconde 
Columbia, though I was favoured with 2 
mnd; I pitched my camp close to Chi 
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