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nauseous to the whole party, and in several it produced 
bowel complaints. Mr. Hood was the greatest suffer- 
er from this cause. This evening we were extremely 
distressed at discovering that our improvident com- 
panions, since we left Hood’s River, had thrown away | 
three of the fishing nets, and burnt the floats ; they 
knew we had brought them to procure subsistence for 
the party, when the animals should fail, and we could 
scarcely believe the fact of their having wilfully de- - 
prived themselves of this resource, especially when we 
considered that most of them had passed the greater 
part of their servitude in situations where the nets 
alone had supplied them with food. Being thus de- 
prived of our principal resource, that of fishing, and 
the men evidently getting weaker every day, it became 
necessary to lighten their burdens of every thing 
except ammunition, clothing, and the instruments 
that were required to find our way. I, therefore, 
issued directions to deposit at this encampment the 
dipping needle, azimuth compass, magnet, a large 
thermometer, and a few books we had carried, having 
torn out of these such parts as we should require to 
work the observations for latitude and longitude. I 
also promised, as an excitement to the efforts in hunt- 
ing, my gun to St. Germain, and an ample compensa- 
tion to Adam, or any of the other men who should kill 
any animals. Mr. Hood, on this occasion, lent his 
