. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . Peluse, and ten men, women, and childrenwere at the falls of the Peluse. In conversation, Slyotze expressed his own and his peoplessatisfaction with the treaty. They regarded Kamiakin as the head chief of the Yakima nation,and the Peluses as a tribe of that nation. Saturday, June 23.—To-day we moved 18| miles, and camped at the Guts of the Cceur dAlenelake. The first four miles took us over a rolling country to a very large spring on the
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . Peluse, and ten men, women, and childrenwere at the falls of the Peluse. In conversation, Slyotze expressed his own and his peoplessatisfaction with the treaty. They regarded Kamiakin as the head chief of the Yakima nation,and the Peluses as a tribe of that nation. Saturday, June 23.—To-day we moved 18| miles, and camped at the Guts of the Cceur dAlenelake. The first four miles took us over a rolling country to a very large spring on the left ofour trail surrounded by cotton-wood ; three miles further we passed by a spring on our right;in two miles crossed the divide between the waters of the Cceur dAlene prairie and the CceurdAlene lake and river; and in six and a half miles we came to a limpid and abundant streamof water near the foot of a low divide, which was very heavily wooded. In a mile and a halfwe struck the lake, passing down a rather steep hill; and continuing along its borders a mileand a half more, we crossed what is known as the Guts of the Lake, and made an excellent. NARRATIVE OF 1855. 201 camp on the other side. Here the good effects of the arrangements we made last evening withthe Indians showed themselves. The chiefs and principal men, who had agreed to meet me atthe Mission, reached the crossing before my party did, and had the canoes in readiness to takeus over. The narrative of these last four days travel shows how extraordinarily well watered thecountry is west of the spurs of the Bitter Root mountains. I will state again, having crossedthis great plain of the Columbia from the Chemakane Mission north of the Spokane to themouth of the Peluse, that the difference in the character of the country on these two lines ismost extraordinary. A large portion of the country, from the Chemakane Mission to the mouthof the Peluse, is arable, and is generally well grassed. Theie is no deficiency of
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