narrow-leafed cottonwood, redwood, and a species of sumach, are all abundant.  So too are the red and black gooseberries, serviceberries, chokecherry, and the black, red, yellow, and purple currant, which last seems to be a favourite food of the bear.  Before encamping we landed and took on board captain Clarke with the meat he had collected during this day’s hunt, which consisted of one deer and an elk:  we had ourselves shot a deer and an antelope.  The musquitoes and gnats were unusually fierce this evening.

Tuesday, 23.  Captain Clarke again proceeded with four men along the right bank.  During the whole day the river divided by a number of islands, which spread it out sometimes to the distance of three miles:  the current is very rapid and has many ripples; and the bed formed of gravel and smooth stones.  The banks along the low grounds are of a rich loam, followed occasionally by low bluffs of yellow and red clay, with a hard red slatestone intermixed.  The low grounds are wide, and have very little timber but a thick underbrush of willow, and rose and currant bushes:  these are succeeded by high plains extending on each side to the base of the mountains, which lie parallel to the river about eight or twelve miles apart, and are high and rocky, with some small pine and cedar interspersed on them.  At the distance of seven miles a creek twenty yards wide, after meandering through a beautiful low ground on the left for several miles parallel to the river, empties itself near a cluster of small islands:  the stream we called Whitehouse creek after Joseph Whitehouse one of the party, and the islands from their number received the name of the “Ten islands.”  About ten o’clock we came up with Drewyer, who had gone out to hunt yesterday, and not being able to find our encampment had staid out all night:  he now supplied us with five deer.  Three and a quarter miles beyond Whitehouse creek we came to the lower point of an island where the river is three hundred yards wide, and continued along it for one mile and a quarter, and then passed a second island just above it.  We halted rather early for dinner in order to dry some part of the baggage which had been wet in the canoes:  we then proceeded, and at five and a half miles had passed two small islands.  Within the next three miles we came to a large island, which from its figure we called Broad island.  From that place we made three and a half miles, and encamped on an island to the left, opposite to a much larger one on the right.  Our journey to-day was twenty-two and a quarter miles, the greater part of which was made by means of our poles and cords, the use of which the banks much favoured.  During the whole time we had the small flags hoisted in the canoes to apprise the Indians, if there were any in the neighbourhood, of our being white men and their friends; but we were not so fortunate as to discover any of them.  Along the shores we saw great quantities of the common thistle, and procured a further supply of wild onions