He would not trust any one to add up the bill and pay it all at once.

At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coast.

They were called slugs.
The Indians, along the lower Columbia as far as the Cascades and on the lower Willamette, died off very fast during the year I spent in that section; for besides acquiring the vices of the white people they had acquired also their diseases.

The measles and the small-pox were both amazingly fatal.

In their wild state, before the appearance of the white man among them, the principal complaints they were subject to were those produced by long involuntary fasting, violent exercise in pursuit of game, and over-eating.