small village of about 30 buildings occupied by the servants of the Co. and their families. All of these buildings are wood, generally hewn logs, like the universal log House of Canada. There is also a spacious garden just back of the stockade, which now produces a large variety of vegetables, Apples, Pears, Gooseberries, Strawberries, currents &c.
July 26, 1841.
Weather warm & sultry, during the day a light air from the Westd. Obtained equal altitude sights to regulate a pocket chronometer that had been saved from the wreck and was furnished me without a rate. Mr. Douglas kindly took me about the Fort to show me the interior of the different buildings and residences of the Co. Found quite a large variety and quantity of stores and furs on hand, much order and system in the general arrangement, and the strictest attention and obedience observed by the subordinents to the directions of their superior.
Clear at night got obts' of the N star for Lat. Mr. Drayton[1] arrived from Walla Walla. A rumor reached the Fort that a Party under Capt Walker[2] (an old mountainer mentioned by Washington Irving in Capt Bonneville's work) had been cut off by the Indians and all massacried some where near Fort Hall. July 27, 1841. Weather much the same, generally cloudy in the mornings clearing up by meri and remaining clear during most of the night. Very busy in collecting together the necessary articles to equip the Party, the Co. being unable to furnish enough pack saddles & Parfleshs. Dis-
- ↑ Mr. Joseph Drayton, artist and one of the draughtsmen of the expedition, who ascended the Columbia as far as the trading post known as Fort Nez Perce or Walla Walla in company with Peter Skene Ogden. See Wilkes' Narrative, Vol. IV, Chapter II; also see Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. XI, p. 270.
- ↑ A false rumor. For Joseph R. Walker see Irving's Rocky Mountains, 1837 edition, Vol. I, p. 30; also Palmer's Journal (Early Western Travels) Vol. 30, p. 70.
