Population on the North Branch, 525
" on Lake Superior, 322
" at the Fountain of Frazer Lake, 1127
Number of Knife Indians, 1530
Total number of souls, 4772
I remain, reverend Father, yours, &c.,
J. Nobili, S. J.
No. XIX
A. M. D. G.
Fort Walla-Walla,}
July 18th, 1846. }
Very Rev. and Dear Father Provincial,—I accepted the kind offer of Mr. Lewes, and took my seat in one of the barges of the Hudson Bay Company, on its way to Fort Vancouver. We stopped at Fort Okinagane, where I administered baptism to forty-three persons, chiefly children. Our passage was very pleasant and agreeable. I have little to add to what I have already stated in my preceding letters of last year, respecting our residence at Saint Francis Xavier's, and the other Catholic establishments in the Willamette Valley and vicinity. St. James' Church at Vancouver, St. John's in Oregon City, St. Mary's at the Convent, and St. Francis Xavier's chapel have all been opened for divine service. The new church among the Canadians, and Cathedral, were fast progressing. The number of children in the Sisters' school {229} had
- [Footnote: Similkameen) branch of the Shushwap stock, inhabiting the valley of Similkameen
River and ranging thence to the Thompson and Fraser. The six bands of Shushwap here named correspond in part with the divisions given by G. M. Dawson in "The Shuswaps of British Columbia," in Canadian Royal Society Transactions, ix, part 2, pp. 3-43.—Ed.]
