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it a kind of gown of dressed leather, like 
the shirts of the men, but with wider 
sleeves. The children fled from me with 
indescribable fear, and, till assured of my 
amicable intentions, only one man and one 
woman could be seen, to whom I gave a 
few beads, brass rings, and a pipe of 
tobacco. 
Arrangements having finally been made, 
I set off, and, in three days, reached the 
snowy mountains, where I was on the 
whole disappointed, finding little that was 
different from what I had seen a fortnight 
before; and, after suffering severely from 
pain in my eyes, which rendered reading 
or writing very difficult, except in the 
morning, and haunted continually by the 
thought that our people, who were daily 
expected from the coast, would have arrived 
and brought my letters, I returned to my 
camp on the Walla-wallah on Monday, the 
3rd of July, and spent the rest of that 
week in botanizing in tbe neighbourhood 
and packing my seeds, for which I had to 
make a box, and drying and securing my 
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plants. 
On the following Sunday, the 9th, an 
opportunity having offered of sending to 
the coast, I wrote to Mr. Sabine, giving a 
short account of my proceedings since I 
had last addressed him, exactly a.month 
previously; but as this letter is only a 
repetition of what my journal has just 
- stated, it is unnecessary to copy it here. 
In hopes that by going two or three days' 
journey down the river, instead of prose- 
cuting my researches for plants, in an op- 
posite direction, I might meet the party 
who are expected from the coast, and thus 
earlier obtain possession of my much de- 
sired letters, I embarked at 10 a. M. of 
nday, the 10th; and, the river being 
at its height, proceeded for two or three 
hours at the rate of twelve miles an hour, 
when the great swell obliged us to put on 
` shore. And as the same cause rendered 
it impossible to fish for salmon, a horse 
was killed, on whose flesh, with a draught 
of water, I made my supper. After a 
cheerless night, during which the mosquitos 
= Were excessively troublesome, I proceeded 
DOWGLAS SUMMER EXCURSIONS 
about fifty miles the next day, wh 
breakfasted on similar fare. While 
this, an Indian, who stood by my si 
managed to steal my knife, which had b 
further secured by a string tied to 
jacket; and as it was the only one I p 
sessed, for all purposes, I offered a rewi 
of tobacco to get it returned. b 
being. ineffectual, I. commenced a.s 
for its recovery, and found it conc 
under the belt of one of the kna 
-When detected, he claimed to be paid. 
recompence; but as I did not conce 
him entitled to this, as he had not give 
it at first (nor given it at all indeed 
paid him certainly, and so handsomely, with 
my fists, that I will engage he does no! 
forget the Man of Grass in a hurry. Hav- — 
ing halted at night below the Great Fé 
of the Columbia, I saw smoke rising b 
some rocks, and, thinking it might be 
Indians fishing, walked thither in quest of 
salmon. Instead of their savage 
tenances I found, however, to my 8 
delight, that it was the camp of the b 
from the sea. I cannot describe the teet: 
ing which seizes me, when, after travet 
some weeks together with Indians, Im 
a person whom I have known before; 
even they are strangers, yet the 
tenance of a Christian is at such 
most delightful. In the present ms 
had the additional happiness of 
myself in the society of those who? 
ever treated me with cordiality, and 
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acts of kindness towards me. ; 
my dejected and travel-worn pligbt, 
fetched me some water to wash with 
other handed me a clean shirt, and à 
busied himself in making ready some" 
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dials, my letters from England! 
these, from Mr. Sabine and my br | 
were peculiarly gratifying. Those 
sons who have never been, like mé ^ 
such a remote corner of the globe, 
perhaps think I should be ashamed {0 
my weakness on the present occasion 
