The Tour commenced by way of Buffalo, Erie, and Pittsburgh;
passage to Cincinnati in the steam-boat Ohioan; the steam-
boat takes fire; Cincinnati; Falls of the Ohio; the Ohio river;
Ohio and Kentucky; confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers; Point Girardou; beautiful appearance of fire on the
prairie; St. Genevieve, old custom; Herculaneum; gambling
on board the steam-boats; St. Louis; Dr. M. Whitman; Mr.
Fontenelle. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leave St. Louis for Liberty; passage up the Missouri; snags;
a walk on shore; Jefferson city; river scenery; steam-boat
Siam; sand bars; Lexington; steam-boat disaster; Liberty;
Navahoe Indians; ride to Cantonment Leavenworth; amusing
provincialisms; caravan commence their journey; first en-
campment; Iowa Indians; Blacksnake hills; Nodaway river;
Elk; cross tbe Neshnabotana; rich soil; rapid rise of the north
branch of Neshnabotana; mode of living; mounds of the west;
crossing the Missouri; Bellevue; Missionaries. . .

Continuance at Council Bluffs; interesting scenery; Indian curiosity;
information obtained about several Indian tribes; spasmodic
cholera; an Indian chief killed; leave Bellevue for the
Black Hills; storm of rain; heavy thunder storm; Elkhorn
river, the country around; Loups fork of the Platte; manner
of encamping; Big Ax, Pawnee chief; Indian feasting; fourth
of July; Messrs. Dunbar and Allis; thunder storm; Indian
ornaments; effects of drunkenness; bite of a rattle-snake ;
buffolo seen; prairie horse-fly; forks of the Platte; want of wood;
swiftness of antelopes; climate; thousands of buffalo; badgers;
prairie dog; interesting bluffs; old castle; the chimney, or beacon;
an alarm; Ogallallah Indians, their lodges; Black Hills.

Black Hills; day of indulgence; buffalo dance; the desire of
Indians for instruction; met the chiefs in council; re-commenced
our journey for rendezvous; anthracite coal; species of wormwood;
Red Bute; traces of grizzly bears; geology; Rock Independence;
Rocky Mountains; perpetual snow; valley through the mountains;
"thunder spirits" gone; an alarm ; waters of the Colorado. . .

Arrive at rendezvous; trappers and hunters; four Indian nations;
Flatheads and Nez Percés, no reason why so called; surgical
operations; an interview with the Flathead and Nez Percé
chiefs; their anxiety for religious instruction; return of Doct.
Whitman; Shoshones and Utaws ; mountain life. . .

Part with my associate; arrive at head waters of the Columbia;
kindness of the Indians; narrow defile; geology; Jackson's
Hole; wild flax; trappers go out on a hunt ; mountain prospect;
Trois Tetons; danger from affrighted buffalo; Pierre's
Hole; volcanic chasm; children on horseback; interesting
worship with the Indians; burial of a child; scarcity of food;
a timely supply; Salmon river; expected battle; geological
observations; scene of mourning. . . . . .

Salmon river; mineral salt; chimneys; forest trees, new species
of pine; geology; sulphur lake; a rare animal; new species
of squirrels and pheasant; came to the Lewis branch of the
Columbia; ferryman; Basaltic formation; fine climate;
arrive at Walla Walla. . . . . . . .

Description of Walla Walla; the kind treatment of the Indians
by the Hudson Bay Company; leave Walla Walla for Fort
Vancouver; loquacious orator; rapids; introduction to the Cayuse
Indians; morning prospect; long rapids; Volcanic mountains;
trial of Indian generosity; arrival at the Falls of the Columbia
river; rousing effects of oratory; La Dalles; Boston trading
company; remarkable subsidence; Cascades; Chenooks are
the Flatheads and Nez Percés; dangerous rapids; Indian
burying places; Pillar Rock; interesting waterfall; sea fowl;
arrive at Fort Vancouver. . . . . .

Description of Fort Vancouver; departure for Fort George and
mouth of the Columbia; mouths of the Multnomah: Wappatoo
Island; May Dacre; Coffin Rock; Cowalitz river; Indian
friendship; Pacific Ocean; Gray's Bay; Astoria. . .

Description of Fort George; mouth of the Columbia; dangerous
bar; mountainous coast; varieties of timber; good location for
a missionary station; continued rains; dense forests;
excursion in a canoe down the bay; view of the coast; disasters
at the entrance of the Columbia; ship William and Anne; ship
Isabella; Tonquin; Japanese junk; reflections; water fowl;
return to Fort Vancouver; the regard Indians show the dead;
Indian kindness. . . . . . . . . .

Review of journeyings; school; journey up the Willamette; walk
upon the pebbly shore; falls; settlement on the Willamette;
Methodist Mission; epidemic; voyage down the river;
hospitality of Wanaxka; construction of his house; Fort William,
on the Wappatoo island; astonishing thirst for ardent spirits:
return to Fort Vancouver. . . . . . .

Services on the Sabbath; obstacles to the gospel; discouraging
case; manner of spending time; description of Vancouver fur
and farming establishment; garden productions, lumber;
commerce; peltries; system of the Hudson Bay Company; waste
of life; hardships of a hunter's life; their perseverance;
Christian principle; worldly principle. . . . . .

Indian population; diseases; mortality; atttributed to cultivation
of the soil; destitute of medical science; holidays; customs at
home; customs of the Indians; resemblance to Jewish customs
in punishment; marriage contracts; condition of the females;
slavery; division into tribes; points of dissimilarity;
sacrifices; language. . . . . .

The various animals beyond the Mountains. . . . . . .

Fish; description of salmon; salmon fishery; ornithology;
dendrology; shrubbery; nutritive roots; geography; mountains;
valleys; plains; forests; rivers; soil; seasons. . . .

Character and condition of the Indians; Indians of the plains;
their persons; dress; wealth; habits; physical character;
manufactures; their religion; wars; vices; moral disposition;
superstitions; medicine men. . . . . . . .

The Indians of the lower country. . . . . . . .

Conversation with an intelligent Indian; meeting with Indians;
early and mild season; La DalIes Indians; their anxiety to
receive the gospel; Nootka humming bird; number and
location of the Indians in the lower country; Indians of the north;
the agitated question; solitariness. . . . .

Departure for the upper country; American hunters; geology at
the Cascades; Indian honesty; escape in a dangerous gale;
the Falls a favorable location for a missionary station; tender
sympathy; famished Indians; arrival at Walla Walla;
interesting meeting of Indians; opportunity to give them
religious instruction; a walk; the nutritious quality of prairie grass.

Journey to the Nez Percé country; funeral of a child; natural
scenery; worship on the Sabbath; return to Walla Walla;
industry of the Indians; battle ground; practice of smoking;
journey to Colvile. . . . . . .

Paloose Indians; Pavilion river; extraordinary excavation; lost
on the prairie; Indian principle; Spokein woods and country;
Indian ferry; Spokein valley; granite; volcanic curiosities;
fertile valley; worship with the Spokeins; Mill river valley;
arrival at Fort Colvile; description of the place; leave Colvile for
Fort Okanagan; a mountain of marble; Grand Coulè, or old
bed of the Columbia; Okanagan described; Long rapids; arrive
at Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A summary of the Indians of the Upper country; names of the
tribes, their locations and numbers; leave Walla Walla for Fort
Vancouver; swift passage down the river; run the Falls;
Cascades; dangerous eddy; arrive at Vancouver; steam-boat
excursion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Geology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

General remarks; Meteorological table. . . . . .

The voyage commenced for the Sandwich Islands; passage in
the Beaver down the river; take passage in the barque Columbia;
detention in Chenook bay; arrival at the islands; worship
in the native church; description of Oahu; the Pari; the valley
of Manoa: description of Honolulu; of Waititi; heathen temple;
Eva; Waialua; Keneohe; mountains; salt lake; geology;
natural productions; animals; government; tea party of
the royal family; dinner to the officers of the Peacock and
Enterprise; decrease of population; unfair negotiations; foreign
charity school; seamen's chapel; burying place of
the royal family; missionary success. . . . .

Departure from Oahu in ship Phoenix for the United States; call
at the Society Islands; brief description of Tahiti and Eimeo;
severe gales of wind: Magellanic clouds; Martin Vass Island;
Trinidad; arrival at New London . . . . .