Arrival of Jesuit missionaries.--Toupin's statement about Rev. A. B. Smith.--Death of Mrs. Jason Lee.--First express.--Jesuits at work.--The first printing-press.--The Catholic tree. Page 180 CHAPTER XXV. Independent missionaries arrive.--Their troubles.--Conversion of Indians at the Dalles.--Their motives.--Emigrants of 1839.--Blubber-Mouth Smith.--Re-enforcement of the Methodist Mission in 1840.--Father De Smet.--Rev. Harvey Clark and associates.--Ewing Young.--Names of missionaries and settlers. Page 185 CHAPTER XXVI. 1840.--Petition to Congress of United States.--British subjects amenable to the laws of Canada.--Mr. Douglas as justice of the peace.--Mr. Leslie as judge. Page 193 CHAPTER XXVII. Death of Ewing Young.--First public attempt to organize a provisional government.--Origin of the provisional government.--First Oregon schooner. Page 199 CHAPTER XXVIII. Lee and Hines explore the Umpqua River.--Mr. Hines tells a story.--Massacre and plunder of Smith's party by the Indians.--Sympathy of the Hudson's Bay Company.--Extract from the San Francisco _Bulletin_. Page 205 CHAPTER XXIX. Missionaries leaving.--Hudson's Bay Company's Gold Exchange.--Population in 1842.--Whitman and Lovejoy start for the States.--The Red River emigration.--American merchants.-- Settlers not dependent on the Hudson's Bay Company.--Milling Company.--The Oregon Institute.--Dr. Elijah White.-- Proceedings at a public meeting.--Correspondence with the War Department. Page 211 CHAPTER XXX. Dispatch of Dr. White to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.--He praises the Hudson's Bay Company.--His account of the Indians.--Indian outrages.--Dr. White's expedition to the Nez Percés.--Indian council.--Speeches.--Electing a chief.--Laws of the Nez Percés.--Visit to the Cayuses.-- Doings of the missionaries.--Drowning of Mr. Rogers and family.--George Geere.--Volcanoes.--Petition against Governor McLaughlin. Page 218 CHAPTER XXXI. Letter of H. H. Spalding to Dr. White.--Account of his mission among the Nez Percés.--Schools.--Cultivation.-- Industrial arts.--Moral character.--Arable land.--Letter of Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of War. Page 234 CHAPTER XXXII.