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sides, it counts nothing ; but if two with like marks, it counts one. 

 The game is generally twenty, which are marked with pieces of 

 stick ; the tens are noted with a smaller stick. This game is played 

 for strings of deiitalium, called by them "ahikia;" each string is 

 about two feet long, and will pass for considerable value, as the shells 

 are difficult to procure : ten of them are said to be worth a beaver-skin. 



The men and boys play a game with small bows and arrows : 

 a wheel, about a foot in diameter, is wound round with grass, and 

 is rolled over smooth ground; the players are divided into two 

 parties : one rolls the wheel, while the other shoots the arrow at it. 

 If he sticks his arrow into the wheel, he holds it on the ground 

 edgewise towards the one who rolled it, who, if he shoots his arrow 

 into it, wins his opponent's arrow ; and this goes on by turns. 



Another game is played by a party of men and boys, in the follow- 

 ing manner: two poles are taken, six or eight feet long, and wound 

 round with grass ; these are set up about fifty feet apart. Each player 

 has a spear, which he throws in his turn. Whichever side, after a 

 number of throws, puts the greatest number of spears in their oppo- 

 nent's pole, wins the game. The usual bet among the men is a cotton 

 shirt. 



Mr. Drayton also paid a visit to the Indian village on the Klackamus 

 river, which is about three miles from the falls, in company with Mr. 

 Waller. The village is one and a half miles up the Klackamus, and 

 its inhabitants number about forty-five individuals. Mr. Waller 

 went there to preach, and about half the inhabitants of the village 

 attended. The chief was the interpreter, and was thought to have 

 done his office in rather a waggish sort of manner. Preaching to the 

 natives through an interpreter is at all times difficult, and especially 

 so when the speaker has to do it in the Indian jargon of the country. 

 This village has been disputed ground between Mr. Waller and Mr. 

 Bachelet, the former claiming it as corning within his district. Not 

 long before our visit, Mr. Bachelet had planted a staff and hoisted on 

 it a flag bearing a cross. When this became known to Mr. Waller, 

 he went to the place and pulled it down, and has driven Mr. Bachelet 

 away. Such difficulties are very much to be deprecated, as they 

 cannot but injure the general cause of Christianity in the eyes of the 

 natives ; and it is to be wished that they could be settled among the 

 different sects without giving them such publicity ; for the natives 

 seldom fail to take advantage of these circumstances, and to draw 

 conclusions unfavourable to both parties. 



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