CHAPTER XII.
Quit Honolulu — Touch at Atooi— Signs of improvement — Sail for the north — Great numbers of marine animals — Touch at Kodiack — Natives — Observations — Visit Sitka — Enter the Columbia River — Present state of Astoria — Ascend the river to Fort Vancouver — Jealousy of the Indians respecting their dead — The establishment at Fort Vancouver — Colonizing the Wallamette — Relations with America and Russia— Great size of the forest trees — The Hudson's Bay trading establishment — Wreck of a Japanese junk — The crew seized by the natives — Other similar occurrences — Character of the Indians who compress the head — Influence on the mind — Sail for California — Settlement of Ross — Bodega — Unsafe anchorage — San Francisco — Sailing directions for the port.
