n and
enjoyment. There is already a steady stream of emigration to this new
"land of promise," and every thing seems to indicate for it a vigorous
growth and development, and a brilliant and substantial future.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

At Sea.--Mariguana Island.--Sea-Birds.--Shipwreck.--Life on
Roncador Reef.--The Rescue.--Isthmus of Panama.--Voyage to
San Francisco.--The New Baby. 1

CHAPTER II.

Port Angeles.--Indian "Hunter" and his Wife.--Sailor's
Funeral.--Incantation.--Indian Graves.--Chief Yeomans.--Mill
Settlements.--Port Gamble Trail.--Canoe Travel.--The
_Memaloost_.--Tommy and his Mother.--Olympic Range.--Ediz
Hook.--Mrs. S. and her Children.--Grand Indian
Wedding.--Crows and Indians. 18

CHAPTER III.

Indian Chief Seattle.--Frogs and Indians.--Spring Flowers
and Birds.--The Red _Tamahnous_.--The Little Pend
d'Oreille.--Indian Legend.--From Seattle to Fort
Colville.--Crossing the Columbia River Bar.--The River and
its Surroundings.--Its Former Magnitude.--The Grande
Coulee.--Early Explorers, Heceta, Meares, Vancouver,
Grey.--Curious Burial-Place.--Chinese
Miners.--Umatilla.--Walla Walla.--Sage-Brush and
Bunch-Grass.--Flowers in the Desert.--"Stick"
Indians.--Klickatats.--Spokane Indian.--Snakes.--Dead
Chiefs.--A Kamas-Field.--Basaltic Rocks. 38

CHAPTER IV.

Two Hundred Miles on the Upper Columbia.--Steamer
"Forty-Nine."--Navigation in a Canyon.--Pend d'Oreille River
and Lake.--Rock Paintings.--Tributaries of the Upper
Columbia.--Arrow Lakes.--Kettle
Falls.--Salmon-Catching.--Salmon-Dance.--Goose-Dance. 63

CHAPTER V.

Old Fort Colville.--Angus McDonald and his Indian
Family.--Canadian _Voyageurs_.--Father Joseph.--Hardships of
the Early Missionaries.--The Coeurs d'Alene and their
Superstitions.--The Catholic Ladder.--Sisters of Notre
Dame.--Skill of the Missionaries in instructing the
Indians.--Father de Smet and the Blackfeet.--A Native
Dance.--Spokanes.--Exclusiveness of the Coeurs
d'Alene.--Battle of Four Lakes.--The Yakima Chief and the
Road-Makers. 75

CHAPTER VI.

Colville to Seattle.--"Red."--"Ferrins."--"Broke Miners."--A
Rare Fe