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they began to ascend along a path that was scarcely visible from 

 being overgrown with Gaultheria, Hazel, Spirsea, Vaccinium, and 

 Corn us. 



During the day, they crossed the Stehna. In the evening, after 

 making sixteen miles, they encamped at the junction of the Puyallup 

 with the Upthascap. Near by was a hut, built of the planks of the 

 Arbor Vitge (Thuja), which was remarkably well made ; and the 

 boards used in its structure, although split, had all the appearance of 

 being sawn : many of them were three feet wide, and about fifteen 

 feet long. The hut was perfectly water-tight. Its only inhabitants 

 were two miserable old Indians and two boys, who were waiting here 

 for the arrival of those employed in the salmon-fishery. The rivers 

 were beoinniuCT to swell to an unusual size, owino- to the meltinor of the 

 snows in the mountains; and in order to cross the streams, it became 

 necessary to cut down large trees, over which the packs were carried, 

 while the horses swam over. These were not the only difficulties 

 they had to encounter : the path was to be cut for miles through 

 thickets of brushwood and fallen timber; steep precipices were to 

 be ascended, with slippery sides and entangled with roots of every 

 variety of shape and size, in which the horses' legs would become 

 entangled, and before reaching the top be precipitated, loads and all, 

 to the bottom. The horses would at times become jammed with their 

 packs between trees, and were not to be disengaged without great 

 toil, trouble, and damage to their burdens. In some cases, after 

 succeeding in getting nearly to the top of a hill thirty or forty feet 

 high, they would become exhausted and fall over backwards, making 

 two or three somersets, until they reached the bottom, when their 

 loads were agrain to be arranged. 



On the 22d, their route lay along the banks of the Upthascap, 

 which is a much wider stream than the Puyallup. A short distance 

 up, they came to a fish-weir, constructed as the one heretofore de- 

 scribed, on the Chickeeles, though much smaller. 



This part of the country abounds with arbor-vitse trees, some of 

 which were found to be thirty feet in circumference at the height of 

 four feet from the ground, and upwards of one hundred feet high. 

 Notwithstanding the many difficulties encountered, they this day 

 made about twelve miles. 



On the morning of the 2;3d, just as they were about to leave their 

 camp, their men brought in a deer, which was soon skinned and 



