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creek; not much wood; plenty water and grass; camp within two miles of The Dalles.

Tuesday, October 5, – Travel 10 miles down Columbia River; pass The Dalles; flour 35 cents per pound; camp in Columbia River bottom; wood, water and grass.

Wednesday, October 6, – Travel two miles; camp and go to preparing to raft down river; haul some pine logs to the river; grass plenty.

Thursday, October 7, – Cut logs and caulk wagon beds all day; very windy evening and night; plenty wood, water and grass; boats and canoes running up and down the river.

Friday, October 8, – Very windy; cool day; haul logs all day; no boats running; cattle doing very well.

Saturday, October 9, – Still preparing our raft to go down the river; blustery, cool weather.

Sunday, October 10, – James Nicholson, John T. Stewart and John Akin start with the cattle on the pack trail.

Monday, October 11, – Calm day; take our raft to pieces; put it together again.

Tuesday, October 12, – Start down the river about 10 o'clock; travel six miles; wind upstream.

Wednesday, October 13, – Travel five miles; high wind up the river; camp in a big willow thicket; plenty of wood.

Thursday, October 14, – Travel five miles; all leave the raft and go down the river in an Indian canoe except Uncle Stewart and W. A. Colter.

Friday, October 15, – Reach the Cascades about 2 o'clock in the evening; everyone sick.

This is the last entry in the diary kept my James Akin, jr.

Mrs. Nancy Hanson tells me that we paid the Indians who brought us down in the canoe $20 in money and our big tent.

Our little sister, Mary Ann Akin, died at the Cascades and was buried there. We were at the Cascades about a week waiting for the steamboat to bring us down to Portland.

Our father died two weeks after we reached Portland.

Frances Rowe

There were eleven deaths in this company. From numerous sources, reasonably reliable, information has been secured which indicates that probably not less than five thousand persons died on the plains in the year 1852, principally from cholera-George H. Himes, Secretary

This diary is copied from "Transactions of the 36th Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association"

Portland, OR June 11, 1908