Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle

CHAPTER XXIII.

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Scarcity of Employment--Wilkes' Exploring Expedition--Meek Employed as Pilot--Interchange of Courtesies at Vancouver--"The Peacock"--Unpleasant Reminder--Exploring the Cowelitz--Wilkes' Chronometer--Land Expedition to California--Meek Discharged--Gleaning Wheat--Fifty Miles for an Axe--Visit to the New Mission--Praying for a Cow--Marriage Ceremony, 280