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health, she was carried in a wagon or cart to Green River, but from here she was able to travel on horseback. New Missions. Leav- ing the women at Fort Vancouver in Septem- ber 1836, the men re- traced their journey up the river to Waiilat- pu, which is seven miles from the present site of Walla Walla. Here Doctor and Mrs. Whitman were to la- bor. Hence it was called the Whitman Mission. In the Nez Perces country on Doctor Whitman't Re- turn. When Doctor Whit- man arrived in New York with his story of the In- dians and their needs the Board at once placed him in charge of a mission to be organized in the new country. The following year Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Spalding and Mr. W. H. Gray accompanied Doctor and Mrs. Whitman. They traveled with the fur trad- ers from Missouri to the mountains. Because of Mrs. Spalding's feeble