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Show • J !4 ·il~o·v ond c l1en y t;·te on it<; !1ai'k" ; anti is a bole ''<\pht s: ·~· ~m ahrmt 15 r1rds lricJ. .. .. \Ve kvJ •t \lmq t~·e b.·:wr·h uL?nt foa t· n~iks ; ... nd thc:n c~ me t0 th~ l l'lll" \;]• '"e lt jMSSCS t h l'OU!cl1 a hvautifu} l)J 1 :t) T ? ~ ; , --. Ll'•- ',\ e h~lt~.l lt) w·att fo:·:t C .. tnoc. ,•, tich we c:{pect-e_ cl tl ,,~ som~~ of t~1e !Ltn.c:s "ou!d b~·in~ up the rl\·er, to [1~SJ 'l lis 111 Cl'JSHng- ; 1\ 11r n ; .: intend to Ulc:.u,np. until t 11c sno\\: shdll hJ\ C su!)ic iclltly melteu to ~wnuL of out· cros<;m~ the motmt<tiJJs. At dark the canoe cc~m e, bnt it being· too 1-ttL to cross wr• cnw camped on the south ~ ide. Tredw:'iday 11- 1ft. The mo:·1 i·1g- w~s piea~lln t witl. sume \Vlllte f:oo,t. 'Th ~'ce ~n;rnl!rs we-nt over very e·.rly to the north ~ ideoft!H~ nn:t. All the 1estoftl!e m.c-:• '.rc~·o cmptoycd in collecting our horses and t.iKlntj over the bagg<lge. About noun we got all the ho:ses and bagg-ag·e over safe ; and met wit l1 one of ou.. t. · hm~ters, 'vllo had killed two bears, some distance ?~· ~o two mt:n were dispatched with him to Jnng In the m i:at ; and we set nbout fo"ming a camp at the t·~rmuns of an andct1t \ iJ! ·r:;e o~; t l1e north ~.d~ of Lhe Koo<>-koos-ke river. '.Ve were accon~p~ m.ied by a numb('r of the natin~s, one of vd·om gai ~ ~~·s a hors.c; and three more of our old stock ~·.ere Jroug l.lt In by them. In the a;'t\.!rncon we h;1d an ~pc ~'t1 tlon pet fonnecl on seven of o tlr hor!.e., to rcn· t..~ r 1 them ~110re pc:act:ab!e ; Y.l:ich ·wc:s done by one 'J~ t 1e nau~cs upon all but OI1C. In the evcnirw the '"'1 -~n a · 1 1 t~ '1 ' c me m Wlt 1 tt1e meHt of the two bears i and .. :tS0 om· other hunters who had l<ilJ ... cl th ree more. ~11 of the ~rizly kind. \Ve g<He some of tl1e mea· o the nau ves at our cam 1), \vho cook 'cl it in thtir m"n way · wl11·c·1 \V" d · t ,, 11 · ' 1 uS r one In t 1e 10. OWl'1f; manner f hcy fit·?t collected SDrile stones and ht:.lted then1 UIJOil '''1Icll tl l I ' t1 1 • • 1CY P ucec1 a part of the mea t, and upon ae m eat sot1e Sl11all bru~h, and so alternately mc<~ l and bl'ush, until all the meat ·was on ; when the whoJ~ Wl4S COV """'·d ' t · 1• l t:l .; Wl n wl'Us 1 and b:.;tl y Tf.ith earth ; so JOlJRNAL. ~15 that the heap or m ;1c;c; harl somethir1g of the appea. rance of a small coulpa OT1 fin: . An hour and un ha lf\\ ~s necess::try to cook it in this Viuy. T he naT: ives remained at onr camp all night. Tlwn-duy 15rh. This was a fiue morninn- a1, .1 !-) l c .u .,ome hm ters w ·nt out early. The rest of the pm·ty ·~·,~ r·e cngag·t>d rnal ·. i n~; pbces of shelter, to defend h('m f,·om tl1c stormr Wt:-~t her. Some lHt<.1 small -ai 1s to cover their Ji·tie hovels, and otbers hnd to J.1akc frames atHI CO\'Cl' them \\ i th gras'). A round O'll' c:tmp the I icdns IMve the appearanrc of a mca4 dow b_fore it Is n.Jo·wt·d, and affm ds aLundan ·c of , orl ~H' onr l.or~es. I I ere we expect to f t-Tllain a month bl.!fore we can Ct'oss the mountains. '.Phe natives staiu all chy at Oll l' camp ; and one of them had ~·omHl his neck a "calp of an Inditm, '<vith six thumbs l1Ll f(lur fing- · r ~i of otner lndi<ms be bnd killed in b.ttr. h·, of the ~)ho-slJO-ne, or bnakc na:ion. The nation l I • • ' • :1t'l'e t le '- l ·o-co-n; Jn, 1s Y<.:ry nurn e1 ouc;, as well as 11c Olh e r. These nations h;:n c been long at w;_o· and .}c;:;troyed a gr~:: at m ... ll1}' of e~1c h other in a ft:w yei.lrs p-1st. 1 ·.om the 1\tTan~.m nation to the Pat:ific orrnn, the "rms of t ill! lnrlialJS are g nt:rJ.lly bows ancl anows, .. nci the \v:..u·-m ~d.h:t . The \':al' malkt is a club with h l.~t·ge head of wood or stone ; t hose of stone ~lfl generally cove!'ed v. ith Je.tther, and f.lskned to the end of the ( iul..> '~' it:l thonb's or strnp5 of leather awl t·he smews of ai,imah. * ~ 'f i;c pnhTi<>l>r-.r h:t3 <;(•rn one nf 1l1£'se stone he:1ds, latelv i~>unl at f.I ztjit! .'< 1 , tlw f.1:·m nf .l\11· D.n •d Dav i ~, three m1k~s f1·nm P tt:.h~trg"1 t r•: rnc A! \.:g-hen l'i·;cr. I i-; <1fa hnrcl spcrics c.[ sloll :·!.d \\ l":!,h.:. sevetl ounct>s. Jt is ne ~n ly spherical \\ ith il g; ' (1()1'{' r\11 Wltll<l to hn:d , ar.: i~ 'il•Pl r sed, t1 c s'J ,lp h:r v h1ch it i c:; f~t=>l<>r t d to 1L·.! dub. 7\-i,· Cj·1:-:,; n sit i~ ( ':tt:tly ill{" thuse he h=ld Sef•J1 to t.h-: '"e~'.·,:,. re Thel'\" i.· l ( l'h:A!'W |