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ciple ones a good hiding. A few peals of thunder heard this afternoon.

Sunday 12th. Close weather. Distant thunder & light rain towards night. The batteux with salt, mens orders &c arrived at Plomondons landing.

Monday 13th. Air a little clearer than usual, with light rain. Employed ploughing-thrashing &c &c. Carted the things brought by the batteux up from Plomondon's landing.

Tuesday 14th. Fair clear weather; very heavy rain last night. Employed thrashing, ploughing &c &c. Changed cattle pen; started 4 pairs harrows; harrowed in 9 Bus[hels] white wheat.

Wednesday 15th. Beautiful weather splendid for farming—days long & cool, ground sufficiently wetted by the late showers to be ploughable. 8 ploughs & 4 harrows agoing—sowed 2I Bus White wheat. Finished changing the large cattle pen. Carrier & 3 Owhyhees putting up a new stable on the hill. Derval & Johnson[1] house building. 3 Indians cutting picketing for a garden—thrashed 45 Bus Wheat.

Thursday 16th. Fair temperate weather. Sowed 18 Bus Wheat—ploughmen finished field No. 5 & commenced field No 22 that was partly ploughed for coleseed during summer which failed from the excessive drought. Only thrashed 27 Bus Wheat owing to the crasy state of the mill. Carrier & Maalo putting up new Stable—Johnson & Derval house building. Handcock an American building a brick oven. Kalama[2] repairing Salmon barrels, 3 Indians chopping pickets for garden—very busy time—collected 12 Bus ladies finger potatoes for seed next year.

Received from two American 40 Bus Wheat. Jim returned from Vancouver; sent the papers &c received by him off to Nisqually by Bapt[iste][3] immediately. Mr. Douglas expects to pass here about 1st October.

  1. ↑ Alexis Johnson, middleman, 1847-51, Cowlitz Farm employee lists, H.B.C. Arch.
  2. ↑ A Sandwich Islander on 1847-49 Cowlitz Farm employee lists as a laborer, H.B.C. Arch. In 1849 he went to the Nisqually Farm, and Louis Ledoux went to Cowlitz in exchange. Nisqually journal, WHQ, X:207.
  3. ↑ A regular Nisqually messenger? See Nisqually Journal, WHQ, X:209.

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