60/63 Follow if you like. In a day or so, Doctor McLaughlin plans a party for us all far up the Columbia to the missions at Wailatpu. That is in the valley of the Walla Walla, they tell me, just at this edge of the Blue Mountains, where the wagon trains come down into this part of Oregon." "They may not see the wagon trains so soon," I ventured. "They would scarcely arrive before October, and now it is but summer." "At least, these British officers would see a part of this country, do you not comprehend? |