“I suppose so,” said Burke; “but I don’t know.

MISDIRECTED VENGEANCE--HONORABLE MENTION--CHANGE OF COMMAND--EDUCATED

OXEN--FEEDING THE INDIANS--PURCHASING A BURYING-GROUND--KNOWING RATS.

While still encamped at the lower landing, some three or four days

after the events last recounted, Mr. Joseph Meek, an old frontiersman

and guide for emigrant trains through the mountains, came down from

the Dalles, on his way to Vancouver, and stopped at my camp to

inquire if an Indian named Spencer and his family had passed down to

Vancouver since my arrival at the Cascades. Spencer, the head of the