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another prominent Hudson Bay man and his wife were joined together in the white man's fashion by the same minister that married their daughter to her husband and at the same time.

Romance treats it lightly, but whole tragedies of self-renunciation were bound up in many of these marriages.

Before McLoughlin came to Oregon another servant of the Hudson's Bay Company had been exercising all the functions and authority of a chief of the Indians. James Birnie was in every respect an interesting charader, and had great influence with the Indians of the Columbia River, and from 1846 to his death in 18 he lived and with his wife reigned at Cathlamet. He conneded himself with the Hudson's Bay Company at Montreal, and three years later, in 1820, established a Hudson's Bay