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370 T. C. ELLIOTT

will soon cease and peace and Quietness Reign once more amongst you As to us here we go on in the Old Way I killed forty Head of cattle last Summer so you see the tabou is Broken Last year two more Missionaries came across from St Louis and are settled in the Vicinity of Walla Walla they Expect a large reinforcement this year both across Land and by sea on the 2nd Jany the American Brig Lorait Entered this River in Ballast having been chartered at Oahu at the Rate of seven hundred Dollars P Month By a Mr Slacum to Bring him here He said he came to join some friends who were to have come across land but as they did not come he is gone Back by way of Mexico from this you may see that we will not be long without seeing settlers here and Why should it not be settled you Know the Climate is Mild and you have not so fine a Country in Canada as the Willamette you Know we have no Need to make hay for our Cattle the settlers in the Willamette have Built a Grist Mill and this year have five thousand Bush- els Wheat they have Built a fine House of 30 by 70 feet for a priest whom they Expect to get from the Bishop of Red River and we also have a Chaplain the Revd Mr Beaver and his Wife from this you see we Expect to be well supplied with Clerical Characters I think I see you smile and say to yourself you Want it Well be it so it is well for those who can have what they want I have not heard from your Brother since the Brigade came down he was out in the plains last Summer and I expect to hear from him or to see him every moment I am told he intends to Urge to go out to shew himself But as I understand the Govr has written him this may Induce him to alter his Mind you are surprised at my having been at Haldimand the fact is in 1816 (fall) in the troublesome times, I fell ill going down from St Maries at Haldimand at the House of one Grover who treated me with the Greatest Kindness and I Beg if you go that way that you Remember me to him in the Kind-