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made up my mind to return, and can only 
express the gratitude I feel towards Mr. 
M‘Leod for all the kindness and assistance 
I have uniformly received from this gen- 
tleman.! 
Tuesday 5th to the 7th. All my goods 
have been packed for two days, but the 
heavy rain detains me. As, however, the 
weather at this season may probably be- 
come worse instead of better, I am deter- 
mined to wait no longer. Started at ten 
A.M., with John Kennedy, an Irishman, 
and Fannaux, a Canadian. Mr. M‘Leod 
kindly expressed much regret at seeing me 
depart with a very slender stock of provi- 
sion, and that none of the best: a few 
dried salmon-trout, purchased of the In- 
dians, and a small quantity of Indian corn 
and rice mixed together, which we had 
brought from Fort Vancouver; in all, a 
week’s food for three persons. But at this 
season, I trust there is little to be feared, 
-as we may hope to shoot deer or wild fowl. 
The late rains rendering the river impass- 
able for loaded horses, we sent our luggage 
in three small canoes, and camped up the 
river near the lodges of some Indians, from 
whom we obtained a small quantity of trout. 
Wednesday the 8th. Made little pro- 
gress, the road being dreadfully bad, and 
the horses much exhausted with fatigue and 
poor fare, as there was hardly any grass. 
Twelve days of extreme misery, durin 
which we travelled with great labour, un- 
der all the disadvantages of hunger, cold, 
and rain, brought me back to the Colum- 
bia, where I arrived much disheartened, in 
consequence of having lost nearly the 
whole of my collections when crossing the 
River Sandiam, one of the tributaries of 
the Multnomak. On reaching the Fort, I 
had the satisfaction of finding comfortable 
letters from my friends in England. Here 
I staid till the 9th of December, when the 
hope of replacing some of the objects 
Which I had lost, induced me to revisit the 
coast; but this was a still more unfortu- 
1 A memorand x 
| poor Douglas' hand-writing in 
the margin of his journal at this place is, ** Remem- 
— ber, on arriving in London, to get him a good rifle- 
gun as a present.” 
DOUGLAS’ JOURNEY TO 
described in Mr. Douglas’ bota 
nate undertaking than the first, as. 
the disaster to be wrecked in my 
and returned home sick from the effe 
wet and cold, having added nothing to m 
collection but one new species of Ledun 
L.dealbatum.? From this date to 
of March I spent my time in the sam 
as the preceding winter, when I once m 
visited the sea, and was again driven b 
by bad weather, having failed for the 
and last time. The remainder of 
on the coast was spent in packing 
collections. 
DOUGLAS’ JOURNEY TO HUDSON'S 
On the 20th of March, 1827, by 
nual express, and in company 
M‘Loughlin, I started for England 
Fort Vancouver, a place where, if 
resting country without much re 
walked the whole distance to Fort © 
on the Kettle Falls, which occupied 
ty-five days, not one of which passed 
out presenting to my notice some 
interest, either in Botany or Zoology. 
beautiful Erythronium grandiflorum t 
Claytonia lanceolata were in full 
among the snow. M. 
On the 18th of April Mr. E—»5 
seven men and myself, took our de x 
from the Kettle Falls to the Rocky ! 
tains, early in the morning. Not 
portance occurred; we entered the . 
Lake on Friday the 20th, and used 
the wind being so favourable that we 
Sunday the 22 eb 
above this place, where the river 
sudden bend, and to all appearance 
in the mountains, a scene of them 
rific grandeur presents itself; the * 
rent is confined to the breadth of ; 
yards, and tossed in rapids, wmr} 
eddies; on both sides are mou" " 
ering to the height of six or eight 
2 No such plant appears in the collec 
such plant appears in the 
