120. 
on the summit, from a circular hollow in 
the earth, eleven feet in diameter: the water 
springs up to from nine inches to three feet 
and a half above the surface, gushing up and 
falling in sudden jets; thence it flows in 
a stream down the mountain fifteen feet 
broad and two and a half feet deep, running 
with great rapidity, with a descent of a 
foot and a half in ten, and finally disappears 
in a small marsh. I could find no bottom 
to the spring at a depth of sixty feet. 
Surrounding this spring, which I named 
Munro's Fountain, is a beautiful thicket 
of a species of Ribes, growing twelve to 
fifteen feet high, and bearing fine fruit, 
much like gooseberries, as large as a mus- 
ket-ball, and of delicate and superior 
flavour. I hope it may be allowed to bear 
the specific name of R. Munroi (Bot. Reg. 
t. 1300). The Paonia (P. Brownii), men- 
tioned before, with Abronia vespertina, 
and a fine Xylosteum and Ribes viscosis- 
simum, also grew here. On joining my 
guide we examined the state of our larder, 
and finding that provisions were low, and 
our appetites keen, we determined to regain 
our friends' camp, and, travelling all night, 
arrived there at sun-rise, Hardly, how- 
ever, had I lain down to sleep, than I was 
roused by the call to arms, which, to a 
Man of Grass and of Peace, is far from 
welcome. A misunderstanding having 
arisen between our interpreter and one of 
the Indian chiefs, the latter accused the 
former of not translating correctly, and 
words failing to express sufficiently his 
wrath, he seized the poor man of language, 
and tore off a handful of his long jet hair 
by the roots. On being remonstrated with 
for this violence, the Indian set off in a 
rage, and summoned his followers, seventy- 
three in party, who came all armed, each 
with his gun cocked, and the arrow on the 
bow-string. As, however, every individual 
of our camp had done all that was possible 
to accommodate matters, we took things 
coolly, and apparently careless of the re- 
sult, stood, thirty-one in number, to our 
arms, and asked if they wished for war? 
. They said ** No; we only want the inter- 
preter to kill him, and, as he is no chief, 
DOUGLAS' SUMMER EXCURSIONS 
this could not signify to us.” B 
reply was, that whether chief or not, 
individual in our camp, though he v 
only an Indian, was entitled to our } 
in war before or not. c 
we took care to show by our countenance 
as much as in our speech, had the desi 
effect, and they earnestly begged for 
peace which we were certainly quite as. 
glad to grant. Many speeches were m 
on the occasion, and, to judge by 
gestures of these children of nature, - 
the effect which their harangues produce 
some of them must possess oratorical po’ 
of no mean description. ire 
usual, by an 
ture myself away from the camp, 
spent the time, till the 3lst of July, 
arranging and securing what I had alread; 
collected, when I parted with Mr. M'Dor 
ald, who descended the Columbia, 
direction, towards Kettle Falls, on 
Columbia, and reached the Spokan 
on Thursday, the 3rd of August, whe 
was kindly welcomed at the old establ 
ment by my former host, Mr. Finlay. 
next day I left him for the Columbia, 
came to a favourite fishing-place al; 
Indians, who were busily en 
snaring salmon, in traps made of bas 
work, and shaped like funnels. Here ! 
had already caught one thousand Ls 
hundred fish in one morning, having 
snare, awaiting their fate. 
pointed with bone, laced tight to 
piece of wood, which again is freq 
fastened to a long staff with a cord. 
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cross Barriére River, by swimming 
on Cedar River, a small but rapid 
