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576 With the exception of drinking, no objection seems to have been made to the Modeste's officers or men. Captain Baillie rarely left his ship; but the younger officers, besides giving theatrical entertainments, horseraces, balls, and curling matches, visited among the settlers wherever invited, and attended a ball given at Oregon City, in honor of Washington's birthday, by H. M. Knighton, an immigrant of 1845, who was the second marshal of Oregon under the provisional government, and sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives in the winter of 1846. The editorial notices received of these amusements were studiedly