[248] This refers to attempt of Mr. Kittson to ascend the Kootenay river from the Columbia in a batteau, mentioned on pages 178-9 of this quarterly. [249] See note 108 on page 189. [250] Mr. John Warren Dease, Chief Trader, in charge at Spokane House during this winter. [251] The portage mentioned in note 86, page 179, of this Quarterly. [252] Free trappers nominally owned their horses, guns, traps and lodges, but usually were in debt to the Company for everything and obliged to turn in their furs to pay the indebtedness. The regularly employed servants were called the engages. [253] The same as the Coeur d'Alene portage mentioned in note 117, this being Mr. Work's spelling or "Skeetshoo," the name given by David Thompson to the Coeur d'Alene lake and river and Indians. [254] Saddle blankets, made of skins. [255] The Indians residing along the lower Kootenay river; see note 104 on page 187. [256] Thompson Falls, Clark's Fork river, Montana. [257] The name still remains and is said to have its origin from numerous small fish resembling herring that were common there. [258] Pend d'Oreille lake. [259] North end of Skeetshoo Road and in later years called Sineacateen Crossing. [260] Rathdrum creek, probably. [261] Hoodoo lake, Kootenay County, Idaho. [262] Spokane House, at forks of Little Spokane and Spokane rivers. [263] Spokane Falls. [264] Some large spring on Spokane prairie; perhaps where Antoine Plante afterward lived. [265] Sineacateen again. [266] Previously mentioned as Isle d'Pierre and impossible to locate with certainty; possibly Cabinet rapids, Clark Fork river. [267] Possibly the Trout creek, Montana: on main line of No. Pac. Ry. [268] The large camp of the Flatheads near the lake of that name. [269] Mrs. Work was of Spokane blood and a very Intelligent woman. [270] Mr. Dease was suffering from some chronic disease from which he died a few years after at Fort Colvile. [271] Saddle bags. [272] Herders at Thompson's Prairie, where the horses were pastured. [273] Jacques Finlay, clerk of David Thompson, who was in charge of Spokane House in 1811, and after whom Jocko creek, Missoula county, Montana, is named. [274] Another attempt to spell the name Skeetshoo. [275] See note 79, page 176. Mr. Birnie came to the Columbia about 1820. [276] The mouth of the Spokane river where the boats were loaded to proceed either up or down the Columbia. [277] See note 68, page 167. [278] Mr. Work and Mr. Dease remain until the arrival of Mr. Kittson with the furs and provisions from the Flathead trading post. [279] This marks the end of Spokane House as a trading post. For glimpse of this place in July, 1826, consult David Douglas' account in Oregon Hist. Quarterly, Vol. 5. [280] Evidently some prairie near the House, possibly the Five Mile Prairie of present day.