CHAPTER XLI.

Governor Simpson and Dr. Whitman in Washington.--Interviews with Daniel Webster and President Tyler.--His cold reception in Boston by the American Board.--Conducts a large emigration safely across the Rocky Mountains into Oregon.--The "Memorial Half-Century Volume."--The Oregon mission ignored by the American Board.--Dr. McLaughlin.--His connection with the Hudson's Bay Company.--Catholic Cayuses' manner of praying.--Rev. C. Eells.--Letter from A. L. Lovejoy.-- Description of Whitman's and Lovejoy's winter journey from Oregon to Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River. Page 315