COLUMBIA RIVER. 
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Brought forward, ......... 8,950 
Clalams at Port Discovery, New Dungeness, . 350 
Port Townsend, . 70 
Classet tribe, Cape Flattery and Point Grenville, .... 1,250 
Nisquallv, .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 
The whole territory may, therefore, be considered as containing 
about twenty thousand Indians; and this, from a careful revision of 
the data obtained by myself and some of the officers, I am satisfied, is 
rather above than under the truth. The whites and half-breeds were 
between seven and eight hundred. One hundred and fifty were Ameri¬ 
cans. The number of the latter has, however, increased very much 
since the year 1840, as many emigrants have crossed the mountains. 
The decrease of the red race is, no doubt, equivalent to the increase 
by immigration. 
The surveying parties having returned, on the 14th we took leave 
of Vancouver. After proceeding down to the mouth of the Willa¬ 
mette, we anchored, for the purpose of finishing the soundings and 
making an examination of the channels into which the river is here 
divided by a few islands. 
This work being completed, we dropped down several miles, to 
overtake the sounding parties. Here we were a good deal annoyed 
from the burning of the prairies by the Indians, which filled the atmo¬ 
sphere with a dense smoke, and gave the sun the appearance of being 
