- A Perilous Situation.- Meeting With
M'Tavish And His Party.- Arrival At The Shahaptan.- Plundered
Caches.-Determination Of The Wintering Partners Not To Leave The
Country.- Arrival Of Clarke Among The Nez Perces.- The Affair Of
The Silver Goblet.- Hanging Of An Indian.- Arrival Of The
Wintering Partners At Astoria.
AFTER the departure of the different detachments, or brigades, as
they are called by the fur traders, the Beaver
Prepared for her
voyage along the coast, and her visit to the Russian
establishment, at New Archangel, where she was to carry supplies.
It had been determined in the council of partners at Astoria,
that Mr. Hunt should embark in this vessel, for the purpose of
acquainting himself with the coasting trade, and of making
arrangements with the commander of the Russian post, and that he
should be re-landed in October, at Astoria, by the Beaver, on her
way to the Sandwich Islands and Canton.
The Beaver put to sea in the month of August. Her departure and
that of the various brigades, left the fortress of Astoria but
slightly garrisoned. This was soon perceived by some of the
Indian tribes, and the consequence was increased insolence of
deportment, and a disposition to hostility. It was now the
fishing season, when the tribes from the northern coast drew into
the neighborhood of the Columbia. These were warlike and
perfidious in their dispositions; and noted for their attempts to
surprise trading ships. Among them were numbers of the Neweetees,
the ferocious tribe that massacred the crew of the Tonquin.
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