CHAPTER VIII {III of Vol. II}

The Rocky Mountains and their Spurs--Geography of the Mountain Region--Wyeth--The Outset--The Beaver Catcher's Bride--Trois Butes--Addition from a Monastery--Orisons--A Merry Mountain Trapper--Root Diggers--Enormous Springs--Volcanic Hearths and Chasms--Carbo--An old Chief--A Bluff--Boisais River--Incident of Trade--The Bonaks--The Dead Wail--Fort Boisais, its Salmon, Butter, and Hearty Cheer--Mons. Payette--Curiosity--Departure--Passing the Blue Mountains--The Grandeur of them--Their Forests, Flowers, and Torrents--Descent of the Mountains--Plain, a Christian Crane--Arrival at Dr. Whitman's Mission--Wallawalla--People--Farm--Mill--Learning--Religion--Mr. Ermitinger--Blair--Nez Percés--Racing--Indian Horse Training--Sabbath and its joys in the Wilderness 303

{vii} CHAPTER IX {IV of Vol. II}

Parting with Friends--Wallawalla Valley--Fort Wallawalla--Mr. Pambrun--The Columbia--Country down its banks--What was seen of Rock Earth--Wood, Fire, and Water--Danger, &c. from the Heights--Falling Mountain--Morning Hymn to God--Giant's Causeway--A View of the Frozen Sublime--Tum Tum Orter' and other appurtenances--Dalles--Methodist Episcopal Mission--Mr. and Mrs. Perkins--Mr. Lee--Mission Premises--Egyptian Pyramids--Indians--How Fifty Indians can fight One--Boston--The Result of a War--Descent of the Columbia in a Canoe--A Night on the River--The Poetry of the Wilderness--The Cascades--Postage--Dr. McLaughlin--Indian Tombs--Death--A Race--The River and its Banks--Night again--Mounts Washington and Jefferson--Arrival--Fort Vancouver--British Hospitality 346

TRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, &c., &c.

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