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 308 Charles Henry Carey dians here. The most of them are absent in pursuit of roots to sustain themselves until the salmon fishing shall come on ; which is about the first of June. Sunday 19. About 30 natives at meeting. Bro. Wal- ler preaches. I talk a little by way of two interpreters, one putting it into jargon, the second into Chinook. I say to them, We are all children of the great Father. He sees all we do, though we cannot see him any more than we can see the wind, yet He sees all we do and all we design and wish to do, and when we die we shall appear before Him and if we have done good and designed and wished to do good, He will give us a good place; if we have done bad and designed to do bad, He will drive us away to a bad place ; if we are satisfied we have done bad (as all are bad) we are now to be sorry for it and pray Him to have mercy upon us and forgive us for his good- ness sake. We ought to confess and pray today not next moon or after another sleep, but now &c &c. Monday, 20. The weather is becoming a little warm- er. For some time we have had cold weather with- out rain and the Columbia river is very low. This river for its rise is much more dependent on warm weather in the fore part of the season than upon the clouds; the warm sun of May and June dissolves vast quantities of snow in the mountains and this is poured down into the Columbia in liquid form which raises it from thirty to fifty feet above its present height. There is probably about as much water passing in this river as ordinarily passes the Niagara river; in high water twice as much. Thursday, 23. Our weather is rather cool, but we are passing days rather pleasantly. Busy reading and writ- ing. This day I finish a letter to the Board. Sunday, 26. Bro. Waller goes up the river about ten miles to labor among the Indians there. Bro. Brewer and myself have meeting among those here, about 18 present. In the afternoon, I preach to five adult whites, a few