CHAPTER XXII.

Westward Ho!--Opening Wagon Roads--Republicanism--Fat Pork for Preachers--Mission Work at Waiilatpu--Helen Mar--Off for the Wallamet--Wagons Left at Walla-Walla--The Dalles Mission--Indian Prayers--The Missionaries and the Mountain-Men--The Impious Canadian--Doing Penance--Down the Columbia--Trouble with Indians--Arrival at the Wallamet--Hunger, and Dependence on Fort Vancouver--Meeting Old Comrades--Settling on the Tualatin Plains--A disagreeable Winter--Taking Claims--Who furnished the Seed Wheat, 271