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where dwelt whole tribes, that have been entirely swept off; and, 

 during the time of the greatest mortality, the shores of the river were 

 strewed with the dead and dying. This disease occurs, it is said, 



semi-annually, and in the case of foreigners, it is more mild at each 

 succeeding attack. 



Owing to the above causes, the population is much less than I 

 expected to find it. I made every exertion to obtain correct informa- 

 tion, and believe that at the time of our visit, the following was very 

 nearly the truth, viz. : 



Vancouver and Washington Island, ..... 5,000 



From latitude 50° to 54° N., on the main, .... 2,000 

 Penn's Cove, Whidby's Island, including the main land (Sachet 



tribe,) 650 



Hood's Canal (Suquamish and Toando tribes), . . . 500 



Birch Bay, 300 



Fraser's River, ......... 500 



Clalams at Port Discovery, New Dungeness, .... 350 



Port Townsend, ......... 70 



Classet tribe, Cape Flattery and Point Grenville, . . . 1,250 



Nisqually, 200 



Chickeeles and Puget Sound, ...... 700 



Port Orchard, 150 



Cowlitz, 330 



Okonagan, .......... 300 



Colville and Spokane . . . . . . . 450 



Kilamukes, 400 



Chinooks, 209 



Clatsops, 220 



Cascades, .......... 150 



Pillar Rock, Oak Point, and Columbia River, . . . 300 



Willamette Falls and Valley, 275 



Dalles, 250 



De Chute's and John Day's River, 300 



Yakima, 100 



Wallawalla, 1,100 



Blackfeet, that dwell principally on the west side of the Rocky 



Mountains, 1,000 



Umpquas, .......... 400 



Rogues' River, ......... 500 



Klamets, 300 



Shaste, . • 500 



Callapuyas, 600 



Total, 19,354 

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