Chapter X

Fort Vancouver--Agricultural and other improvements--Vancouver
"camp"--Expedition to the Wallammet--The falls--A village of
{vii} Klikatat Indians--Manner of flattening the head--A
Flathead infant--Brig "May Dacre"--Preparations for a
settlement--Success of the naturalists--Chinook Indians--
their appearance and costume--Ague and fever--Desertion of
the Sandwich Islanders--Embarkation for a trip to the
Islands--George, the Indian pilot--Mount Coffin--A visit to
the tombs--Superstition--Visit to an Indian house--Fort
George--Site of Astoria--A blind Indian boy--Cruel and
unfeeling conduct of the savages--Their moral
character--Baker's Bay--Cape Disappointment--Dangerous
bar at the entrance of the river--The sea beach--Visit of
Mr. Ogden--Passage across the bar, 297

CHAPTER XII

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