KANE LEFT FOR OREGON CITY AND WHILE EXPLORING THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY HE VISITED ST. PAUL MISSION
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January 5
PAUL KANE ATTENDED A PLAY PUT ON BY CREW OF H.M.S. MODESTE IN HARBOUR AT FORT VANCOUVER (HE KEPT THE HANDWRITTEN PROGRAM)
KANE LEFT FOR OREGON CITY AND WHILE EXPLORING THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY HE VISITED ST. PAUL MISSION
March 25
KANE LEFT FT. VANCOUVER FOR VANCOUVER ISLAND - CAMPED AT MOUTH OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY
KANE SKETCHED MT. ST. HELENS FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LEWIS RIVER
(KANE'S KATTLEPOUTAL)
KANE CAMPED AT COFFIN ROCK
March 27
KANE ENTERED COWLITZ RIVER
KANE VISITED BURIAL MOUND ON THE COWLITZ RIVER
March 30
KANE LANDED AT COWLITZ FARM
OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
ST. HELENS
THROWING SMOKE
April 5
KANE GOT HORSES TO CROSS TO NASQUALLY ON PUGET'S SOUND
KANE PASSED OVER MUD MTN. AND CAMPED AT PRAIRIE DE BUTE
KANE CROSSED THE NISQUALLY RIVER AND ARRIVED AT NISQUALLY
April 8
KANE LEFT NISQUALLY GRAZING FARM
KANE REACHED FT. VICTORIA
KANE WENT
UP THE EAST SIDE OF VANCOUVER ISLAND AND CROSSED CANAL DE ARO TO THE MAINLAND
May 7
KANE TOUCHED WHIDBEY ISLAND WHICH DIVIDES THE STRAIT OF DE FUCA FROM PUGET SOUND
May 14
KANE RETURNED TO FT. VICTORIA FROM THE MAINLAND
June 10
PAUL KANE LEFT VANCOUVER ISLAND TO RETURN TO FORT VANCOUVER.
June 15
KANE ARRIVED BACK AT NASQUALLY CROSSED PRAIRIE DE BUTE AND MUD MOUNTAIN
June 20
KANE ARRIVED BACK AT FT. VANCOUVER
July 1
KANE LEFT WITH THE BRIGADE GOING EAST - GOT TO CO.'S MILLS - 8 MILES FROM THE FORT
July 2
KANE REACHED "PRAIRIE DE THE" WHERE MEN LANDED FOR THEIR CUSTOMARY DEBAUCH
July 3
KANE'S MEN 'STUPID' FROM DRINK THE NIGHT BEFORE BUT OLD GRUDGES NOW SETTLED
July 4
KANE SPENT THIS AND NEXT DAY PORTAGING AT FOOT OF CASCADES
KANE FINISHED PORTAGING AROUND CASCADES ON THE COLUMBIA
AND RETRIEVED A SKULL
KANE REACHED A METHODIST MISSION AND CAME TO PORTAGE AT THE DALLES
ARRIVED AT THE CHUTES - PORTAGE INDIANS FISH HERE
July 9
KANE LEFT THE CHUTES - RUNNING UP THE RAPIDS UNDER SAIL
July 10
KANE'S MEN WERE TRACKING UP THE COLUMBIA IN BARE FEET AMIDST THE RATTLESNAKES
KANE CAME TO THE JUNCTION OF THE WALLA WALLA AND COLUMBIA WHERE PAINTED CHIMNEY ROCKS
July 12
KANE ARRIVED AT WALLA WALLA
July 13
KANE LEFT FOR PELOUSE RIVER MET PERE JOSE A JESUIT ON WAY TO MISSION AT COUR DE LAINE
SWAM HORSES TO MOUTH OF THE PELOUSE RIVER WHERE EMPTIES INTO NEZ PERCEES- TAKEN TO PELOUSE FALLS
KANE WENT TO UPPER PELOUSE FALLS
July 17
KANE RELUCTANTLY LEFT UPPER PELOUSE FALLS AND CAMPED ON BANK OF NEZ PERCE
KANE STRUGGLED 60 MILES IN HEAT TO REACH DR. WHITMAN'S MISSION
July 22
LEFT WHITMAN'S MISSION FOR WALLA WALLA
July 29
SET OUT FOR COLEVILE (COLVILLE) BY WAY OF THE GRAND COULET (GRAND COULEE)
July 31
OWING TO GREAT BEND IN THE COLUMBIA KANE TRIED TO SAVE DISTANCE BY STRIKING ACROSS COUNTRY TO INTERSECT GRAND COULEE BEFORE ITS MOUTH - CAME TO SALT LAKE
August 1
STILL NO WATER - CAME TO "LAKE OF PELICANS"-WATER GREEN AND THICK WITH DUNG - ALSO THICK SAND
August 2
KANE WOKE UP WITH A 10 INCH LIZARD ON HIS THIGH
August 3
KANE STRUGGLED THROUGH DRIED WATERCOURSES. FINALLY CAME TO GRAND COULEE
KANE FOLLOWED GRAND COULEE SHOT A WILD TURKEY (PHEASANT?) SOME GRASS NOW
August 5
KANE EMERGED FROM THE COULEE
AND SAW THE COLUMBIA 500 FEET BELOW
August 6
KANE WALKING ALONG THE COLUMBIA AND CAME TO A SPOT WHERE COULD NOT GO ON OR UP THE BANK
CAME TO A HIGH HILL OVERLOOKING THE COLUMBIA WHERE COULD SEE FOR MANY MILES - SWAM ACROSS WITHIN A MILE OF KETTLE FALLS. REACHED COLEVILE (COLVILLE)
KANE WENT 60 MILES TO WALKER & EALES PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
September 17
KANE RETURNED TO COLVILLE FROM MISSION
MEN HAULED BOATS UP DALLES DES MORTS
October 10
KANE ARRIVES BACK AT BOAT ENCAMPMENT AND MUST WAIT FOR THE BRIGADE COMING WEST
October 29
BRIGADE ARRIVES AT BOAT ENCAMPMENT FROM JASPER HOUSE WITH PROVISIONS FOR THE WEST POSTS AND RUSSIAN FURS
October 30
KANE LEFT BOAT ENCAMPMENT WITH 4 INDIANS WHO HAD COME WITH THE BRIGADE TO BRING BACK THE HORSES AND TO GUIDE KANE - LOW LEFT WITH BOATS FOR FT. VANCOUVER
November 1
KANE DESCRIBES GOING UP POINTE DES BOIS AS THE WORST ROAD AND DAY OF HIS LIFE. HORSES STUCK IN MUD, PACKS COMING OFF ETC.
KANE STARTED UP THE GRAND COTE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROCKIES - FINALLY REACHED THE SUMMIT
November 3
COLDEST NIGHT KANE REMEMBERS (COLDER THAN -56) - SCORCHED FACE TO THAW OUT- PASSED GRAND BATTEUR GOING DOWN WHIRLPOOL RIVER
November 4
LAST NIGHT CAMPED AT CAMPMENT DE REGNALLE AND TODAY KANE GOT DOWN TO GRAND TRAVERSE
KANE CROSSED THE ATHABASCA IN FLOOD
AND THEN CAMPED AT LA ROQUE'S PRAIRIE GOING EAST
November 6
KANE CROSSES MARGIN OF A FROZEN LAKE - 7 OR 8 MILES LONG 8 (JASPER LAKE) - BEARD AND NOSTRILS FROZEN COLD - ARRIVED AT JASPER HOUSE
November 15
LEFT JASPER HOUSE HEADING EAST AND STAYED NIGHT AT INDIAN LODGE ABOUT 15 OR 16 MILES FROM JASPER HOUSE
SLED BLOWING ON GLARE ICE ACROSS BRULE
LAKE KANE MET INDIANS IN BARE FEET (DON'T WANT TO FREEZE UP THEIR MOCCASINS WHEN NOT USING SNOWSHOES)
November 17
KANE STRUGGLING AGAINST ICE JAMS ON THE ATHABASCA RIVER - FELL THROUGH ICE
KANE ARRIVED AT GRAND RAPID
ON THE ATHABASCA - 4 MILES OF GIANT ICE JAMS
November 19
KANE'S FEET CUT UP FROM FROZEN STRINGS - BLOOD LEFT BEHIND EVERY STEP
November 20
KANE GOT MAL DE RACQUET (INTENSE PAIN IN INSTEP) FROM SNOWSHOES (TOO MUCH, TOO QUICKLY)
CAMPED FOR NIGHT AT BAPTISTE RIVER
WHERE IT JOINS ATHABASCA
November 25
KANE'S INSTEP PAINFUL - MEN OFFERED TO SCARCIFY IT WITH A SHARP FLINT
November 27
KANE FELL THROUGH ICE. FOOD ALMOST GONE SO HAD TO PUSH AHEAD WITH EXERCISE KEEPING HIM WARM - PROBLEM WITH HIS TROUSERS CHAFING HIS LEGS
KANE ON ATHABASCA
DECIDED NOT TO EAT DOGS AS SO THIN WOULD NOT PROVIDE ENOUGH FOOD AND COULD STILL PULL SLEIGH
KANE ARRIVED AT FT. ASSINIBOINE
HAD MOST DELICIOUS MEAL EVER TASTED - WHITEFISH - DOGS BLOATED
KANE LEFT FT. ASSINIBOINE
FOR FT. EDMONTON - WILL EAT RABBITS
PAUL KANE RETURNS TO FORT EDMONTON
December 25
PAUL KANE SPENDS CHRISTMAS AT FORT EDMONTON
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