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CHAPTER XVIII.

Northern Oregon, Southern and Eastern Idaho.

The air in Portland did certainly seem good to me; the mist was coming down gently, yet constantly, just making enough mud to be noticed. I kept my windows open day and night and in the morning woke up feeling so refreshed and bright from inhaling that pure and balmy November air.

I noticed that the people of Portland, and in fact the entire State, were making great preparations to celebrate the Lewis and Clarke Exposition in 1905. There I will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Lewis and Clarke explorations of the glorious West; when people will congregate from every nation to enjoy Oregon's delightful climate and witness the great

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