George Foster Emmons

“ Men employed working at suits, bags, tapolins and fitting axe helves. Capt Varney lost a man by desertion. The Co. do not countenance men who leave vessels under such circumstances and will lend their aid in detecting them. Accompanied Dr McL— to their mills about six miles up the river on the N bank, both situated directly on the bank on beautiful never failing streams of water which spring from the earth near by, so near that soon after leaving the mills drank from the source of one. ”

“ Hood is now charted as 11,225 feet, located about 55 miles east and 15 miles south of Fort Vancouver. ↑ A not unusual occurrence in the wheat fields of Eastern Oregon and Washington with certain varieties of wheat. ↑ Vancouver Lake, west of present city of Vancouver, Wash. ↑ A custom common to the Chinookan family of Indians, which extended up the Columbia beyond the Cascades. The custom never prevailed among the Rocky Mountain Indians and may have been applied there because of the presence among those tribes of some slaves captured from the Chinooks. ”

“ George Foster Emmons, U. S. Navy, attached to the U. S. Exploring Expedition, [1] who after the wreck of the sloop-of-war Peacock at the mouth of the Columbia river, [2] took charge of a party of scientists of the expedition, and others, and made his way overland through a comparatively unexplored country to San Francisco Bay, rejoining his squadron.
The following pages are descriptive of Fort Vancouver where the party outfitted and of the courtesy and kindly offices of Mr. Douglas (afterward Sir James Douglas) and Dr. ”

“ My levels however from either end of this base only differed 10" & being obliged to depend upon the correctness of my eye for a level, concluded that I might as well depend upon the general estimated distance (until I had an opportunity of measuring a longer base) which being 55 miles would make its altitude above Vancouver 13090 feet or if 60 miles as some suppose, it would be 14390 feet bearing pr. comp. ”

“ Purchassed dressed deer skins and had them smoked previous to being made into trousers and moccasins for each of the party, these being considered quite necessary to resist the scratches that one is subject to in travelling much in mountainous portions of this country. One of my men is sick, the remainder running balls, making provision bags &c. Scientific gentlemen variously occupied. Dr McL—— thinking to make me more comfortable insisted upon my vacating a small room in No. ”