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form of a lashed-up hammock, which the Indians are said to use 

 instead of canoes. 



On the 2d, they travelled all day over a rolling prairie, without 

 water; the low ground was incrusted with salts, notwithstanding 

 which, the land was better than that passed over the day before. 

 Some patches of spireea and dogwood were met with, and a better 

 growth of grass ; although it was still very scanty. 



Large herds of antelopes were seen, but none of them were killed ; 

 the hunters also recognised the mountain sheep, which are of a dark 

 colour, much larger than the common sheep, and having large horns. 

 Towards the afternoon they came to some holes containing water; 

 and such had been the suffering of some of the animals from thirst, 

 that they rushed into them with their packs, and it required much 

 labour to extricate them, for which purpose it was necessary to use 

 the lasso. About midday they left the Klamet Valley, which is far 

 inferior to any portion of the country they had passed through; and 

 as they crossed the hills which enclose it, they found that the out- 

 cropping rocks were composed of a dark green serpentine. They 

 encamped a little beyond the hills, and in the vicinity of their 

 camp, boulders of a coarse syenite, forming the bed of the creek, 

 and lying along its course, were seen. The hornblend crystals of 

 the latter rock were often two inches long, and were set in a white 

 granular paste of feldspar. 



At their camp they were visited by a party of Shaste Indians, who 

 were allowed to enter it, and for some time there was a brisk trade 

 for their bows and arrows. These Indians are a fine-lookino- race, 

 being much better proportioned than those more to the northward, 

 and their features more regular. One of the boys was extremely 

 good-looking. He had a bright black eye, and pleasing expression 

 of countenance ; he was clad in dressed deer-skins, over his shoulders 

 and about his body, but his legs-were bare. They all wore their black 

 hair hanging down to their shoulders; and they do not compress their 

 heads. Mr. Agate had much difficulty in getting them to stand still 

 for the purpose of having their portraits taken, and gave them a 

 miniature of his mother to look at, hoping that this would allay their 

 fears, but it had a contrary effect, as they now believed that he de- 

 sired to put some enchantment upon them, and thought that he was 

 the medicine-man of the party. 



They obtained an exhibition of the archery of the Indians by 



