110 DOUGLAS' SUMMER EXCURSIONS 
for the night, and starting by daylight of the 
next morning (Wednesday 10th), reached 
at noon a small, but very rapid river, call- 
ed by the Indians, Barriére River, having 
travelled for seven hours without food. 
No natives being near to help us across in 
their canoes, my two young companions 
and I had the alternative of making a raft 
or swimming, and being all well accustom- 
ed to the water, we chose the latter. Un- 1 
saddling the horses, we drove them in, and 
they all crossed with safety and ease, ex- 
cept one poor animal, which getting entan- 
gled by its hind legs, among some brush- 
wood at the bottom, struggled for a long 
time, till the impediment giving way, he 
finally relieved our anxiety by gaining the 
other side. I myself made two trips across, 
carrying my paper and gun the first time, 
and my blanket and clothes the second ;— 
the latter articles I was obliged to hold 
above water in both my hands, a difficult 
and tedious process, during which, as if to 
render my labour fruitless, it hailed heavily. 
When I landed, my whole frame was so 
completely benumbed, that we were under 
the necessity of stopping to kindle a fire, 
and to indulge my guides with a smoke, 
after which we proceeded. At night, a 
severe pain between my shoulders and ge- 
neral chilliness kept me from sleeping. I 
rose, boiled my kettle, and made some tea ; 
then dried my blanket, and substituted for 
my damp shirt a spare one in which I had 
rolled my plants; but feeling no better, and 
being unfortunately without medicine, I 
started on foot at a little before four, and 
driving the horses before me, got into a 
profuse perspiration, which considerably 
relieved my sufferings. 
Near this spot was an Indian burying- 
ground, certainly one of the most curious 
I had yetseen. All the property of the 
deceased was here deposited near their 
graves, their implements, garments, and 
gambling articles. Even the favourite 
horse of the deceased is not spared; it is 
customary to shoot the animal with a bow 
and arrow, and suspend the skin, with the 
hoofs and skull, just above the remains of 
his master. On the trees which are round 
the burying-place, small bundles m 
seen, tied up in the same manne 
provisions which ‘they carry when : 
ling. I could not learn whether th 
intended as food for the dead or p 
tory offerings to the divinities. 
the grave the body is placed in a 
posture, with the knees touching the 
and the arms folded across the chest. 
subjects, as nothing seems to hurt the | 
ings of these people so much as alu 
to their departed friends. ; 
Thursday the 11th. At seven this mí 
ing we gained the summit of the last r 
of hills which lie between the 
and Spokan Rivers, and beheld one 
most sublime views that could po 
of rugged mountains, deep valley 
mountain-rills. At noon reached 
Establishment, where Mr. Finlay 
me most kindly, regretting at the 
time that he had not a morsel of 1008 
offer me, he and his family having b 
subsisting for several, at least SIX 
on the roots of Phalangium @ 
(Scilla esculenta, Bot. Mag. t. 2778 
ed by the natives all over the : 
Camass, on those of Lewisa n 
(Bot. Misc. t.70), and on a black L cl 
jubatus), which grows on the 
mode of preparing the latter is as 
—after clearing it thoroughly from the 
twigs and pieces of bark to Wh 
heres, it is immersed in water, 
till it becomes perfectly soft; Y 
placed between two layers of ignited sf | 
with the precaution of prot 
grass and dead leaves, lest it shoule 
The process of cooking takes à 
before the lichen cools, i 
cake, much in the same way 8$ 
langium Quamass ; when it is cone 
fit for y A cake of this kind, 
bason of water, was all that Mr. F3 
to offer me. Great, therefore. 
pleasure in being able to requite 
pitality by giving him a share A 
vision with which Mr. Dease? 
had supplied me, and which, 
from luxurious fare, was yet | 
