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236 CHARLES HENRY CAREY

J. Lee set out for Vancouver & arrived there safely on Friday 12th. On the following Sabbath he preached and baptized Two women and sixteen children and on the Monday evening following baptized two more women and 1 child. In consideration of these services he received donations amounting to five pounds for the benefit of the mission.

J. Lee set out for the mission and arrived safely in a few days.

J. Lee arrived at Vancouver & as C. Shepards health is poor, has concluded to have him return to the Mission house.

J. Lee arrived at Vancouver & on Monday 2d March, left for the Mission in company with C. Shepard (whose health at present is much impared) and an Indian from Vancouver to assist in taking up the canoe and on Saturday 7th arrived safely at the Mission. The river high & current rapid ascending in a canoe very difficult.

Mishael La Framboise brought two indian lads (one of the Silelah, the other of the Kil-a-mook tribe) for the purpose of having them educated.

The Father of the Kil-a-mook lad came and took him away, much to our regret as he is a youth of promise and bade fair to improve rapidly. Ken-o-teesh the Silelah boy has lately killed a panther measureing eight feet from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail.

J. Lee has in the course of this and the last month has been once to Vancouver and twice to Ft. Wm. and the falls of the Wallamette, once to Ft. Wm. by request