PROGRESS OF EVENTS.
Pambrun at the fort, Farnham resumed Ins journey to the Dalles, the 1st of October. He spent a week with Lee and Perkins, and became imbued with the prevailino- Methodist sentiments concerning British residents^ On the 15th, in company with Daniel Lee he took passage for Fort Vancouver, having narrowly escaped the wrath of the Dalles Indians for forcibly recovering some of his property which had
been stolen. 7
At the Cascades they encountered Mclaughlin, lately returned from England, the doctor being prob- ably some distance behind the express which had bronght him from Canada.
Lee presented his newly arrived friend to JVlc- Louglilin, who straightway invited them both to the fort, where they arrived late on that evening, the 18th of October. Farnham, who had been forced to ex- change his clothes for horses, was amply supplied by his host, even to a dress-coat to appear m _ at dinner He made a favorable impression on the inmates ot Fort Vancouver, 8 where he remained till the 21st, learning much concerning the country and the fur trade, which he afterwards turned to account in a number of works published under different titles, but containing much of the same matter. 9
t Farnham gives an account of his skirmish with 40 Indians to obtain possession of the leather portions of his saddle and bridle which had been inkpn out of Lee's workshop, in parts, through a window. In the tray tne cM drew lis pltofand Farnham his rifle, but no blood was shed though the Indians were much excited; the chief refusing to allow his men to assist in ca^K Lee and Farnham's goods to the canoes. Their conduct on this occasion wis the cause of Lee's pure^ of arms and amnumtion elsewhere alluded to. See Farnhams Travels, 101-3. AntTiT1 „_ v
8 Alexander Simpson, a relative of Sir George and a clerk of the company, ofwh^^aZdUe amusing though kindly + things .d^^ Lm as Dossessina- much dry humor, considerable intelligence consummate i^uotn^S 'He talked pgfgjg^
acted shabbily.' Perhaps Farnham's wit had pricked the Englishman a
eg 1 S Hl s Travels to the Rocky Mountains, from which I have quoted was publishedln 1841. Subsequently he published the same *n^W^ ter about California and the interior of the continent, vmder the tollmw titles: Travels in the Great Western Frames the {™ h ^>f^/°ffl ^2. tan,,, and m the Oregon Territory; Pictorial Travel* in California ™*J»W£ Travel* mtU California*, and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean f^J^SKTS He also wrote the History of Oregon Territory; It being a Demomtiation oj