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 various ships. The Porpoise was to survey Hood’s Canal; the boats of the Vincennes were to survey the  rivers and bays in the vicinity; a land party was sent to

FLAT-HEADED SQUAW AND CHILD.

explore the interior, and another was assigned to the Cascade Mountains.

Your humble servant was left, with others, to establish the observatory. This was done near a brook, abreast