192 DOUGLAS' JOURNAL 



Wednesday, 2\st. — I found tie spirits of my guide and interpreter 

 greatly damped, and as I had not abandoned the idea of gaining the other 

 side by a more circuitous and less elevated route, a little more to the south 

 than my present situation, I found their fear increasing ; and, as I had every 

 reason to suppose, the young rascally boy told the Indian the reverse of 

 what I wished him to do. At last the Indian told me that I might be able 

 to go, but as I had a river to cross (the Utalla), which at this season was 

 very large, I would require to swim or make a raft ; and as his nation was 

 at war with the Snake tribe and we going on the confines of their lands, 

 in all likelihood they would steal our horses and perhaps loll us. As it 

 would be very improper to force him to go with me, and impossible for 

 me to go alone, I was reluctantly obliged for the present to give up the 

 idea of crossing. Therefore I lost no time in gleaning on this side. 

 Camped half-way between my Monday's and Tuesday's encampments. 



Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 22nd, 2Srd, 2Wh. — I continued my 

 labours, shifting and moving about in the most suitable places for my 

 pursuit, until I had all that appeared peculiar to that district of the hiUs, 

 when I bent my steps towards the Columbia again, which I reached in the 

 afternoon of Saturday, being eight days on my journey, during which time 

 I saw not a human being except my guides. I found the boy had told the 

 Indian not to go with me as it was dangerous. From what I have seen in 

 these mountains it is my intention, as soon as the plants are dry that are 

 collected, to start for another eight days in a different direction. 



Sunday, 25th,. — In the early part of the day I placed in dry paper some of 

 the plants, and under the presser the more recently gathered ones, and 

 then put up some seeds which I had hung up to dry ten days since. I come 

 now to take from my note-book the following collected on my journey: 

 (14:9) Paeonia sp. ; perennial ; root large and jointed, partly creeping ; 

 stem glaucous, red ; leaves alternate, compoundly Jobed, smooth, and 

 glaucous ; flowers small petals same length as the stamens, centre and the 

 outside dark purple, on the edge and inside bright yellow ; a low plant, 

 6 inches to a foot high ; in great abundance, in clumps, among low bushes on 

 the sunny side of the mountains, flowering in perfection on the confines 

 of perpetual snow ; lower down it is seen in feeble enervated plants, and 

 in the more temperate regions completely disappears ; this valuable 

 addition will I trust be an acquisition to the garden ; if in my power, seeds 

 of it must be had. 



(150) Anemone B^. ; perennial; flowers one, drooping, dark purple ; 

 stem leaves, and outside of the petals, pubescent ; a low plant, 9 to 15 

 inches high ; seen in conjunction with the preceding ; also in abundance. 



(151) Lupinus argenteus, of Pursh ; perennial ; only seen on the sub- 

 alpine or undulating grounds, in dry gravelly soils ; seldom exceeding 14 

 or 18 inches high ; a very fine plant ; found abundantly with the small 

 annual species so common on the alluvial plains of the Columbia, 

 growing together ; by some means or other procure seeds of all these. 



(152) Lupinus sp. ; perennial ; Turneri or aureus (D. D.) ; leaves 

 digitate, five to ten ; leaflets lanceolate, densely covered with silky white 

 hairs ; stem nearly smooth ; flowers verticillate, very large, bright golden- 



