[163] The family of John McLeod en route to the Red River Dist. Consult Note No. 40, p. 103, of April Quarterly. [164] Dr. McLoughlin visited this place the following summer and the Fort was built where Gov. Simpson had selected the site. [165] More recently known as Long Prairie, about 18 miles from the Fort. [166] This Express boat ascended the Columbia River to Boat Encampment at the mouth of Canoe river and met there by appointment the H. B. Co. officer returning from York Factory after the annual summer council there. The horses that brought that Gentleman's party across the Athabasca pass returned with these passengers and dispatches, and the officer came back down the Columbia in the boat. Consult this text Oct. 31st Prox. [167] A prairie still known by the same name; near Springdale, Stevens county. [168] Probably Walkers Prairie, where the Walker-Eells Mission was located in 1838. [169] This would be Francois Rivet, an interpreter, who was given some authority by the traders. He afterward settled on French Prairie below Salem, Oregon. [170] That is, by the Snake river route through Boise, Payette, Weiser, Burnt river and the Grande Ronde in Eastern Oregon. He actually arrived at Fort Walla Walla on Nov. 9th. [171] The first vegetables grown in Stevens county, Washington, by white men. [172] Good cedar timber suitable for boats is said to have grown above the mouth of Deep creek four or five miles above the Fort. [173] The flat where Spokane House was built was a small prairie with some scattering timber in spots. Gov. Stevens found it so in 1853; see Part 1, Vol. 12 of Pac. Ry. Reports. [174] Mr. Kittson's first wife was from the Walla Walla tribe: their son Peter William, born at Fort Walla Walla in 1830, is still living (1914) about 25 miles from Portland, Oregon. [175] See Gov. Simpson's instructions in entry of July 21st ante. The Pend d'Oreille river between Metaline Falls and its mouth is not navigable to this day and this route was never adopted. [176] That is: from Fort Nez Perces or Walla Walla. [177] From other sources we know that Dr. McLoughlin did not get further inland than Fort Walla Walla that season. [178] Spokane or Coeur d'Alene prairie. [179] A. R. McLeod, a chief trader who remained on the Columbia several years and commanded expedition against the Clallam Indians In 1828, for which he was criticised and perhaps censured: Mr. Samuel Black (who was afterwards murdered at Kamloops) was on the way to take charge of Fort Walla Walla to relieve Mr. Dease there; Francis Ermatinger remained in the Columbia District for twenty years, but the brother, Mr. Edward Ermatinger, retired to St. Thomas, Ontario, in 1828. Consult "Journal of Edward Ermatinger," published by Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa, 1912. This "Express" brought mail from Hudson's Bay and all Eastern points. The Forks means the mouth of the Spokane river.