248 JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF DAVID DOUGLAS.

Carcx Me-n-ziesii, Jtincus Menziesii and (jlohosns, Vac- oinium ovatitm, pttrvifolium (Hook Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. t. 128), and ovalif&Lium (Hook. PI. Bor. Am. v. 1. t. 127). I also obtained seeds of the beautiful Spiraea ariaefolia (Bot Reg. t. 1367), of Gaultheria Shallon, Kibes sanguvnem, Ber- beris, and other valuable and interesting plants. Before taking leave of my Indian friends, I purchased several articles of wearing apparel, things used in their domestic economy, etc., for which I paid in trinkets and tobacco. I arrived at Fort Vancouver again on the 5th of August, and employed myself until the 18th in drying the specimens I had collected, and making short journeys in quest of seeds and other plants; my labours being materially retarded by the rainy weather. As there were no houses yet built on this new station, I first occupied a tent which was kindly offered me, and then removed to a lodge of deer skin, which soon, however, became too small for me in con- sequence of the augmentation of my collections, and where also I found some difficulty in drying my plants and seeds. A hut constructed of the bark of Thuja occidentalis was my next habitation, and there I shall probably take up my win- ter quarters. I have only been in a house three nights since my arrival in Northwest America, and these were the first after my debarkation. On my journeys I occupy a tent wherever it is practicable to carry one; which, however, is not often, so that a canoe turned upside down is my occa- sional shelter; but more frequently I lie under the boughs of a pine tree, without anything further. In England, peo- ple shiver at the idea of sleeping with a window open; here each person takes his blanket and stretches himself, with all possible complacency on the sand, or under a bush, as may happen, just as if he were going to bed. I must con- fess that although I always stood this bivouacking remark- ably well, and experienced no bad effects from it, I at first regarded it with a sort of dread, but now habit has rendered the practice so comfortable to me. that I look upon any- thing more as mere super-Unity.