COLUMBIA RIVER. 141 



Brought forward, ......... 8,950 



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 



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 



