[63]. Concerning John Clarke, see Franchère, note 81.—Ed.
[64]. For further information regarding the St. Louis party, see Bradbury’s Travels, note 119.—Ed.
[65]. This is Fort Kamloops, also known as Fort Thompson. It was built by David Thompson (1810) at the junction of the northern and the eastern branches of Thompson River, a few miles from Lake Kamloops and one hundred and fifty miles north of Okanagan post. It became the centre of the Thompson River district of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In 1841 the agent, Black, was murdered in the fort by some Indians, and his successor had the stockade removed across the river to the south side. It is now a town on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and in 1890 had a population of fifteen hundred.—Ed.
[66]. An account of Spokane Fort is given in Franchère, note 85.—Ed.
[67]. For a brief biography of Larocque, see Franchère, note 90.—Ed.
[68]. Similkameen is the present name of this river. It rises in the Cascade Mountains not far from the boundary line, and flows south-east into the Okanagan.—Ed.
[69]. The Palouse River—Drewyer’s River of Lewis and Clark. Palouse is probably an Indian word, although it has been connected with the French word “pelouse,” in that it flows through a rolling, bunch-grass country, the most fertile in eastern Washington. It empties into the Snake eighty-five miles from the Columbia, and is its only important tributary on the northern side.—Ed.
[70]. Concerning the Nez Percés, see Franchère, note 145.—Ed.
[71]. For an account of Cox, see Franchère, note 84.—Ed.
[72]. The original Kootenay post was established by Thompson in July, 1807, on the Columbia River (called by him Kootenay) just below lower Columbia Lake. He wintered here in 1808–09 and 1809–10.