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Rh Vol. 4, pages 322; in Gustavus Hines' "Oregon," page 195; and in Farnham's "Travels" (1843), Page 2 73- I* 1 Rev. P. J. Be Smet's "Letters and Sketches" (1843), in a letter dated September 28, 1841, he spells the name Klatraps, page 231, but in a letter dated August 15, 1842, he spells it Classop, page 220. In Dunn's "History of the Oregon Territory" (second edition, 1843), Page I][ 4> the name is spelled Clotsop. Dunn came to Oregon in 1830 from England as an employe of the Hudson's Bay Company. He stayed with the Company for eight years, when he returned to England. For some time he was in charge of Fort George, now Astoria. The first edition of his book was published in London in 1844.

I have a very rare book, printed in French, published in Brussels, in 1847, entitled "Notice sur le Territoire et sur la Mission de l'Oregon." It contains 180 pages, of which 65 are taken up by a preface, evidently written by a Catholic priest, living in Oregon, and 105 pages made up of copies of letters by Sisters of Notre D!ame de Namur, written in the years 1844-6, excepting one short letter written by Rev. Modeste Demers. January 9, 1844, Rev. P. J. De Smet, S. J., left Belgium on the Bark LTndefatigable for Oregon with four Catholic priests, a lay brother, and six Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, all missionaries to Oregon. They arrived at Astoria July 31, 1844. October 19, 1844, these sisters opened a school for girls in a house built for that purpose at St. Paul on the French Prairie, between Salem and Champoeg in Marion County. In a letter dated at Sainte-Mariede-Wallamette (the name of their mission school at St. Paul), November 15, 1844, written to Mother Constantine by Sister Loyola, telling of their arrival and the establishment of their school, and printed in this book, she writes that at Astoria the Chief of the Clapsapes brought them some salmon, and she also writes of the Indians there as Clapsapes (page 106). In the preface of this book, page 33, the name of the Indians at Astoria is spelled Tlatsaps.

Solomon Howard Smith, came to Oregon as one of Na-