TRAVELS IN OREGON, NO. 1. 
by receiving the Okanagan river, which comes from a 
line of lakes extensively susceptible of canoe navigation. 
The Columbia now passes to the southward as far as 
Wallawalla, 45° N. Lat., where it is joined by the Sap- 
tin or Lewis’s river. This is a stream five hundred and 
twenty miles long from its rise in the Rocky Mountains 
to its junction with the Columbia. It receives many 
branches from the east and west, the principal of which 
are the Kooskooske and the Salmon rivers. The num¬ 
ber of rapids in Lewis’s river make it very dangerous 
for canoe navigation. Its falls form one of the greatest 
natural beauties of Oregon. They are thus described 
by Colonel Fremont: 
“The vertical fall is perhaps eighteen feet high, and 
nearer the sheet of foaming water is divided and broken 
into cataracts, were several little islands on the brink and 
in the river above, give it much picturesque beauty, and 
make it one of those places the traveller turns again and 
again to fix in his memory. There were several lodges 
of Indians here, from whom we traded salmon. Below 
this place the river makes a remarkable bend, and the 
road ascending the ridge gave us a fine view of the river 
below, intersected at many places by numerous fish 
dams. In the north about fifty miles distant, were some 
high snowy peaks of the Salmon river mountains ; and 
in the north-east the last peak of the range was visible at 
the distance of perhaps one hundred miles or more. The 
river hills consist of very broken masses of sand, covered 
everywhere with the same interminable fields of sage, 
and occasionally the road is very heavy. We now fre¬ 
quently saw T Indians who were strung along the river at, 
every little rapid where fish are to be caught, and the 
cry“haggai, haggai,” was constantly heard whenever 
we passed near their huts or met them in the road. Very 
many of them were oddly and partially dressed in over¬ 
coat, shirt, waistcoat or pantaloons, or whatever article 
