At Fort Laramie we were told that they were still well provisioned when passing there, and could even afford to trade away flour, coffee, etc., for necessaries of other kinds. But it was droll to hear how the Sioux stared at the great caravans. Some of them on seeing the great number of wagons, and particularly white women and children, for the first time, began to think of coming down here, having seen, as they supposed, “the whole white village” move up the mountains. INDEX. TOPICAL INDEX. ADAMS— Proposals on the Oregon Question, 220 ASTORIA— Settlement of, 10 Restitution of, to U. S., 214 BAYLIES— Speeches of, on Oregon, 21 BENTON— Oregon policy of, 13, 16, 50, 52 CALHOUN— Opposition of, to Oregon bill, 235 CALIFORNIA— Contract labor in mines of, 281 CARVER— Use of word Oregon by, 112, 166 CHAMPOEG— Origin of name, 88 Early life in, 88, 89 Early settlement near, 173 Early manners of, 172, 176 CHOLERA— Ravages of, among immigrants to Oregon, 363 CLAY— On the Oregon Question, 221 COLUMBIA RIVER— Discovery of, 113 Proposed as boundary, 215 DOUGLAS— Interest in Oregon Question, 40 ENGLAND— Rivalry of, in Oregon Country, 6 EDUCATION— Appropriation of public land for in Oregon, 148 FLOYD— Oregon policy of, 13–17, 218 FREMONT— Work of, in Oregon, 330 GOVERNMENT— Lack of in early Oregon, 9, 10 First exercise of, 10, 11 GOLD— Effect of early discoveries of, 103 GRAY— Explorations of, 113 INDIANS— Customs of, 77 Behavior toward white women, 82 Matthieu’s recollections of, 99 Religious customs of, 179 Legends of the, 183 Request of, for missionaries, 225, 346 First estimate of, in Oregon Country, 296 Position of women among the Oregon, 296 Funeral customs of, 300 Poor food supply of, 302 Estimate and census of Oregon Indians, 314 Language, peculiarities of, 317 JACKSON— Effort of, to acquire San Francisco Bay, 228 KELLEY, HALL J.— Visit to Oregon in 1834, 195 Work in Oregon, 224 Work of, 349 LEE— Petition of, to Congress, 28, 29 LINN— Oregon policy of, 26, 230, 235 LANDS— Cession of state claims to western, 136 LANE— Arrival in Oregon, 52 LEDYARD— Plan of, for exploring Oregon, 115 LEWIS AND CLARK— Plan for the expedition of, 120 Grant of land to, 144 LOUISIANA— Purchase of, by U. S., 147 McLOUGHLIN— Influence of, 11, 12 Notes on, 95, 96 Treatment of American settlers, 105 Domestic life of, 158 Trouble with American immigrants, 201 Hospital work of, 308 MISSIONARIES— Early settlements of, in Oregon, 194, 196, 225 MONEY IN EARLY OREGON, 102 NOOTKA— Convention of, 125