[163] The family of John McLeod en route to the Red River Dist. Consult Note No. 40, p. 103, of April Quarterly.
[164] Dr. McLoughlin visited this place the following summer and the Fort was built where Gov. Simpson had selected the site.
[165] More recently known as Long Prairie, about 18 miles from the Fort.
[166] This Express boat ascended the Columbia River to Boat Encampment at the mouth of Canoe river and met there by appointment the H. B. Co. officer returning from York Factory after the annual summer council there. The horses that brought that Gentleman's party across the Athabasca pass returned with these passengers and dispatches, and the officer came back down the Columbia in the boat. Consult this text Oct. 31st Prox.
[167] A prairie still known by the same name; near Springdale, Stevens county.
[168] Probably Walkers Prairie, where the Walker-Eells Mission was located in 1838.
[169] This would be Francois Rivet, an interpreter, who was given some authority by the traders. He afterward settled on French Prairie below Salem, Oregon.
[170] That is, by the Snake river route through Boise, Payette, Weiser, Burnt river and the Grande Ronde in Eastern Oregon. He actually arrived at Fort Walla Walla on Nov. 9th.
[171] The first vegetables grown in Stevens county, Washington, by white men.
[172] Good cedar timber suitable for boats is said to have grown above the mouth of Deep creek four or five miles above the Fort.