the navigable lower waters of the Snake and fol-
lowed them into the Columbia. Nothing had been
seen by these men of Crooks and Day and the
voyageurs who had dropped out of the march; and
they were now counted as lost.

McDougal and the colony within the fort held
a grand celebration in honor of Hunt's arrival.
Cannon and small arms were fired, liquor kegs
were tapped, and the huge table in the banquet
hall was spread with such delicacies as fish, beaver-
tails, and roast venison. Fiddles leaped from
their bags again on that night and the happy
voyageurs danced. Well had they earned their
right to jig to their heart's content, for, as canoe-
men, they had vanquished strange waters, and dur-
ing six terrible months they had marched with hon-
ors over more than two thousand perilous miles.

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