Chenooks 209
Clatsops 220
At the Cascades 105
At the Dalles 250
Y'Akama River 100
{311} De Chute River 125
Umpquas 400
Roger's [Rogue's] River 500
Klamets 300
Shastys 500
Kallapugus 600
Nisqually 200
Chikelis and Puget's Sound 700
Cowelits or Klakatacks 350
Port Orchard 150
19,154
The whole Territory may be estimated as containing twenty thousand. Of whites, Canadians, and half-breeds, there are between seven hundred and eight hundred, of whom about one hundred and fifty are Americans; the rest are settlers, and the officers and servants of the Company. The Indians are rapidly decreasing in all parts of the country; the causes are supposed to be their rude treatment of diseases, and the dissipated lives they lead.
The white American population, as far as I have been able to judge of them, are orderly, and generally industrious; although they are, with the exception of the missionaries, men who have led, for the most part, dissolute lives.
{312} The absence of spirits, as long as it continues, will probably secure them from excesses. Very much to their credit, they have abandoned the use of spirituous liquors, by consent of the whole community.
I cannot but view this Territory as peculiarly liable
