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Dryade. I am glad to find that all my collections arrived safe here, except 

 a male curlew and a female partridge. As I had no time to lose (to-morrow 

 being the day appointed for the clearing of the ship), I unpacked and 

 repacked seeds brought with me and those sent before from the interior. 



August 31st. — Early in the morning, by Mr. McLoughUn's kindness in 

 furnishing me with boxes, I had shortly after noon done aU and wrote to 

 Joseph Sabine, Esq. ; and should I have time in the evening I shall make 

 a note to Mr. Munro and Mr. Atkinson. This I did, for although somewhat 

 broken down by fatigue and in a state little qualified for giving my 

 friends a year's news, I could not allow such an opportunity to pass if 

 within the bounds of possibility. Wrote to Mr. Munro, Atkinson, Goode, 

 Booth, and my brother. Another to the many restless nights I have 

 experienced. 



Friday, September 1st. — In the morning I saw my chests placed in 

 one of the boats which were going with cargo to the ship. It was my 

 intention to have seen them on board the vessel, but the captain arriving, 

 to whom I gave a note regarding their situation in the ship, rendered 

 it unnecessary ; and as I stood in need of a little ease I returned up the 

 plain, having bid adieu to my countrymen about to visit England. 



Saturday, 2nd, to Friday, 15th. — Weather warm and cloudy, with heavy 

 dews at night. Employed myself gleaning a few seeds of choice plants 

 collected last year : Ribes sanguineum, Gaultheria Shallon, Acer macro- 

 fhyllum, Berberis Aquifolium, Acer circinnatum ; laid in specimens of Pinus 

 taxifolia ^ with fine cones, and collected a few sections of the various woods, 

 gums, and barks of the different timbers that compose the forest in this 

 neighbourhood. On Thursday, I consulted with Mr. McLoughlin about my 

 proposed journey to that country south of the Columbia and the Mult- 

 nomah and towards the Umpqua River. I had spoken to Jean Baptist 

 Mackay, one of the hunters, who goes sometimes through the country 

 contiguous to the latter river ; but as he had been here in July, fully six 

 weeks sooner than expectation, and was gone before I arrived, perhaps I 

 might have difficulty in overtaking him. Mr. McLoughlin informed me 

 that a party in a few days would be despatched for that quarter under 

 the superintendence of A. R. McLeod, Esq., a gentleman who has given 

 me much civility, and that there would be nothing to prevent my 

 accompanying him. I could not allow this favourable opportunity to 

 escape, and expressed my thanks to the persons in confidence for their 

 assistance. Mr. McLeod left on Friday to go by land to Mackay's 

 abandoned establishment on the Multnomah, fifty-six miles from its 

 junction with the Columbia, where he is to remaia untU joined by the 

 remainder of the party, which will leave in a few days. 



Saturday, 16th, to Tuesday, IQth. — Employed maldng preparations for 

 my march. As my gun has entirely failed me, I am under the necessity of 

 purchasing a new one, which only costs £2. Being a new country and no 

 knowledge whatever south of the Umpqua, each has to confine himself to 

 as little encumbrance as possible ; and as nearly the whole must be land 

 carriage, this increases the difficulty. Packed six quires of paper and other 

 ^ Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Mast, in Joum. R. Hort. Soo. xiv. p. 245. 



