My scientific friend counted one vessel after another, and at last pointed to a gap in the line.
"Yesterday I wass here," he said, "and I counted all the ships and their names.

The steamer _Modeste_ she lay there.

Now she iss gone." I pulled up suddenly.

This was the ship which carried Captain Parke and his friend Lieutenant Peel, of the British Navy.

The secret council at Montreal was, therefore, apparently ended! There would be an English land expedition, across Canada to Oregon.