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along by the place. Some years after reaching the Willamette Valley where the Applegate families settled, I heard this same place, Whitman's Mission, or station, called Wailatpu, or saw it printed Wailatpoo.
After passing Whitman's the aspect of the country continued about the same to the Columbia River. Drifts and hummocks of dry sand, sage brush occasionally, and everything dry, dusty, and dreary all the time. At this place on the Columbia was another Hudson Bay post. Fort Walla Walla. It was built mainly of sun-dried bricks, and the plan was about the same as of the Hudson Bay forts we had passed on our journey.
