farms are grouped around this new colony and on the same side of the river. I visited the Catholic soldiers of the fort of Dalles City.
A series of colonies of white settlers will soon be established along the rivers Des Chutes, John Day and Umatilla, and over the 175. miles between the Dalles and Walla Walla. Umatilla has fine forests. This country is especially adapted to the raising of innumerable domestic animals; it is everywhere covered with an abundant and nourishing grass. At the mouth of the Des Chutes there is, as at Walla Walla, a new town started. The Walla Walla plain has already a great number of habitations, in the neighborhood of the fort; the gold mines attract manv thither. Farther down, on the Cowlitz river, below the
Willamette, is Monticello, the beginning of a town. On Puget Sound are the cities of Olympia, Steilacoom, Fort
Townsend, Seattle and Tumwater. There is much rivalry among them as to which will become the notable place. The news of the cessation of hostilities against the United States and the submission of the Indians had been received
at Fort Vancouver. The savages, however, still retained their prejudices and an uneasiness and alarm which had to be dissipated, and there were false reports to be rectified.
Otherwise the war might soon break out afresh. Under the orders of the commanding general I left Fort Vancouver on the 29th of October to go among the mountain tribes, some Boo miles distant.
On the 2d of November I set out from the fort at the Dalles, in an ambulance, for Walla Walla. This journey
took about eight days. The plains that we crossed are for the most part undulating and covered with tufted grass. All this country is to-day stripped of animals and game;
we did not see anything of the sort. Where we encamped on the Des Chutes, John Day and Umatilla rivers, we
found wood for our camp-fire. This country has been tinder military occupation for some years. to keep the peace between the settlers and the Indians. Fort Vancouver is