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curing a few horses and a guide, he set out for the main Colum¬ 
bia, aciT>ss the mountains to the south west, leaving the river 
where it entered the range, and on it Mr. Crooks and five men 
unable to travel. 
Mr. H. lost a Canadian named Carrier, by starvation, before 
he met the Shy-eye-to-ga Indians in the Columbia plains ; from 
whom getting a supply of provisions he soon reached the main 
river, which he descended in canoes and arrived without any 
further loss at Astoria, in the month of Februaiy. 
Messrs. M’Kenzie, M’Clelland and Reed, had united their 
parties on the Snake river mountains, through which they tra¬ 
velled twenty one days, to the Mulpot river, subsisting on an al¬ 
lowance by no means adequate to the toils they underwent dai¬ 
ly; and to the smallness of their number (which was in all ele¬ 
ven) they attribute their success in getting with life to where 
they found some wild horses ; they soon after reached the forks 
called by captains Lewis and Clark, Koolkooske; went down 
Lewis’s party, and the Columbia wholly by water, without any 
misfortune except the upsetting in a rapid of Mr. M’Cleiland’s 
canoe, and although it happened on the first day of the year, yet 
by great exertion they ctung to the canoe till the others came 
to their assistance, making their escape with the loss of some 
rifles, they reached Astoria early in January. 
Three of the five men who remained with Mr. Crooks, afraid 
of perishing by want, left him in February on a small river on 
the road by which Mr. Hunt had passed in quest of Indians, and 
have not since been heard of. Mr. C. had followed Mr. H’s. 
track in the snow for seven clays, but coming to a low prairie he 
lost every appearance of a trace and was compelled to pass the 
remaining part of winter in mountains, subsisting sometimes 
on beaver and horse meat, and their skins, and at others, on their 
success in finding roots. Finally on the last of March the other 
only Canadian being unable to proceed was left with a lodge of 
Shoshonies, and Mr. C. with John Day, finding the snow suffi¬ 
ciently diminished, undertook from Indian information to cross 
the last.ridge, which they happily effected and reached.the banks 
of the Columbia in the middle of April, where, in the beginning 
of May they fell in with Messrs. Steuart and company, having 
been a few days before stripped of every thing they possessed by 
a band of villains near the falls. On the 10th of May, they ar¬ 
rived safe at Astoria, the principal establishment of the Pacific 
Fur Company, within 14 miles of Cape Disappointment. 
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