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1landing from the Columbia River, and in it were an Indian crew and a rather short young man of pinic and white complexion, evidently one of the new United States officers at Fort Vancouver. He was a stranger in the country and was on a trip to Shoalwater Bay and very anxious to get some white man to go on with him. He stayed at the Strong house for several days and so prevailed upon his host that at the end of his visit they went off together to the bay.

No record of this trip exists, and no official report of it was ever made. The Indians were reticent in regard to it, and all the two men vouchsafed to say was that they had had a jolly good time and would have stayed longer had the provisions held out.

Twice again the young officer came to Cath