Chapter XIII

Passage up the Columbia--Birds--A trip to the Wallammet--
Methodist missionaries--their prospects--Fort William--
Band-tail pigeons--Wretched condition of the Indians at
the falls--A Kallapooyah village--Indian cemetery--
Superstitions--Treatment of diseases--Method of
steaming--"Making medicine"--Indian sorcerers--Death
of Thornburg--An inquest--Verdict of the jury--Inordinate
appetite for ardent spirits--Eight men drowned--Murder of
two trappers by the Banneck Indians--Arrival of Captain
Thing--His meeting and skirmish with the Blackfeet Indians--
Massacre--A narrow escape, 318