424 THE IMMIGRATION OP 1343.

Columbia the brig Pallas, Captain Sylvester, from Newburyport, with a cargo of Indian goods consigned to Crashing and Company. In the brig came Edmund Sylvester, also of Maine, brother of the captain, who remained in Oregon, and assisted in building the first two houses in Portland. In 1846 he removed to Puget Sound, 64 and settled at Olympia, of which town he was one of the founders.

It will be observed that those who came by sea were New Englanders. As the missionaries were all from New England and New York, they received these traders and sea-going people with a welcome warmer than that they extended to the western settlers. Their impression on the country was distinct. Une class bought and sold, built mills, and speculated in any kind of property. The other, and now the larger class, cultivated the ground, opened roads, exercised an unbounded hospitality, and carried the world of politics on their shoulders.

« These items are found in Sylvester's Olympia MS 1-4, wHoh treat. principally of the early settlement *£^SJ&£r£«*£&

the cargo, or whether it was on the route to Newburyport that she wa* sold nr on the return to the Columbia River with another cargo All that is Lownt^hlftL'brigwas lost and that in M<>^*g£f^£ command of the Chenamus, which sailed from the Columbia Kiver mkw ^ buryport The Chenamus never returned to Oregon after her voyage of lS4o-b, of which I shall speak hereafter.