These mischievous creatures assaulted us with showers of the fir-apples; but a few shots dispersed our assailants.
Fritz collected some of these new fruits they had flung at us, and I recognized them as those of the stone Pine, the kernel of which is good to eat, and produces an excellent oil.

We gathered a bag of these, and continued our journey till we reached the neighbourhood of Cape Disappointment.

There we ascended a little hill, from the summit of which we looked upon rich plains, rivers, and woods clothed with verdure and brilliant flowers, and gay birds that fluttered among the bushes.
"Here, my children," cried I, "here we will build our summer house.

This is truly Arcadia." Here we placed our tent, and immediately began to erect a new building, formed in the same manner as the Farm House, but now executed more quickly.

We raised the roof in the middle, and made four sloped sides.