Captain John

Kendrick in 1791, but his immediate plan was to form a set- tlement on the Columbia. These papers were not presented to Dr. McLoughlin, but Kelley believed that they were examined and the rest of his baggage overhauled during his illness.* At the worst he fared better than any of the others of his party, for while he was given food and shelter, such as it was, his followers received no favors whatever.

His resentment at the attitude of his countrymen is more easily understood. At the time of his arrival, there were at Fort Vancouver seven men who had accompanied Wyeth on his second expedition, and their presence in that country was the result, direct or indirect, of his efforts. These men were the Lees and their three lay associates, Thomas Nuttall, the celebrated botanist who had served as lecturer and curator at Harvard, and John K. Townsend, a young naturalist. Jason Lee was bom in Canada of American parentage, and Nuttall

X Kelley, Hist, of th^ Stttlin^nt of Oregon, »o; PeHHon, 1866 :6; Bulfinch, Uomorial, 9-1 1, 36 cong. x tcss. H. doc. 43.