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has been disputed ground between Mr. Waller and Mr. Bachelet, the 

 former claiming it as coming 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 with- 

 out giving them such publicity; for the natives seldom fail to take 

 advantage of these circumstances, and to draw conclusions unfavour- 

 able to both parties. 



The men of the Klackamus village are rather taller and better-look- 

 ing than the Clatsop or Chinook Indians : they belong to the Callapuya 

 tribe. The women and children are most of them crippled and diseased. 

 They have been quite a large tribe in former times, as is proved by the 

 crowded state of their burying-ground, which covers quite a large 

 space, and has a multitude of bones scattered around. 



Their mode of burial is to dig a hole, in which the body is placed, 

 with the clothes belonging to the individual : it is then covered up with 

 earth, and a broad head-board is placed upright, of from two to six 

 feet high, which is frequently painted or carved with grotesque figures : 

 all the personal property of the deceased is placed upon this, consisting 

 of wooden spoons, hats, tin kettles, beads, gun-barrels bent double, and 

 tin pots. Although they are very superstitious about disturbing the 

 articles belonging to the dead, yet all these have holes punched in 

 them, to prevent their being of any use to others, or a temptation to 

 their being taken off. It frequently happens that the head-boards will 

 not hold all the articles, in which case sticks are used in addition. To 

 rob their burying-grounds of bodies, is attended with much danger, as 

 they would not hesitate to kill any one who was discovered in the act 

 of carrying off a skull or bones. 



Of their medicine- men they have a great dread, and even of their 

 bones after death. Thus, a medicine-man was buried near this 

 burying-ground about a year before our visit to the country, whose 

 body the wolves dug up : no one could be found to bury his bones 

 again, and they were still to be seen bleaching on the surface of the 

 ground. 



It is no sinecure to be a medicine-man ; and if they inspire dread in 

 others, they are made to feel it themselves, being frequently obliged to 

 pay the forfeit of their own lives, if they are not successful in curing 

 their patients. The chief of the Klackamus tribe told Mr. Drayton 

 that some of his men had gone to kill a medicine-man, in consequence 



