in such profusion, that ; not the fiftieth part becomes the food of organic life." 13 „-,,,. ■, u A mission located in this valley he believed would draw to itself a settlement of the Indians, who would cultivate the soil, while at the same time they were taught sacred things. Accordingly, he selected tor a mission station a spot on the north bank of the Walla Walla River, near the mouth of a small stream now known as Mill Creek, where there was a small valley covered luxuriantly with rye grass, from which the Indians 'called it Waiilatpa, or Wanlatpu. It was not the most cheerful of sites for a homestead being surrounded almost entirely by high rolling hi Is cov- ered with coarse bunch-grass ; but it furnished water and wood, and presented a certain picturesqueness which its very isolation enhanced. It was but twenty- two miles from Fort Walla Walla, which was by no means an unimportant recommendation to a solitary white family. 15

whence lie came, or whither he went, ^SSS S

planation given by Shea is repeated m j^°^*Cta rf the north of the

1 13 Notwithstanding this early re cognition by Parker b °™ \ to be

v instead of a which some say changes its signification, affirming that a is L~r°^ination for theVord with the above meaning

i* Undoubtedly, this spot was the '^^^^A^^St i Whit- Or., 165-6, the reader is made to believe that ^e choice w^ s< up per part of Trmi Parker says that after encamping for a night on tne .uPP er V ,.