Early Western Travels 1748–1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D. Editor of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” “Wisconsin Historical Collections,” “Chronicles of Border Warfare,” “Hennepin’s New Discovery,” etc. Volume VII Ross’s Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810–1813 [Illustration: [Logo]] Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1904 COPYRIGHT 1904, BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII PREFACE. _The Editor_ 9 ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS ON THE OREGON OR COLUMBIA RIVER: being a Narrative of the Expedition fitted out by John Jacob Astor, to establish the “Pacific Fur Company;” with an account of the Indian Tribes on the Coast of the Pacific. _Alexander Ross_, one of the Adventurers Author’s Preface 21 Author’s Table of Contents 23 Text 33 Appendix Chinook Vocabulary 321 A Table of the Weather at the Mouth of the Columbia River, from March 22nd till July 22nd, 1811 330 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME VII Map of the Columbia 18 Facsimile of original title-page 19 PREFACE TO VOLUME VII The present volume is occupied by the reprint, from the original London edition of 1849, of Alexander Ross’s _Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River_ from 1810–13.