The following is an extract from a letter dated Honolulu,
Oct. 30, 1842. "The town is now full of strangers, the
Chenamus having brought some 19 passengers from the Oregon,
who are returning home, disgusted with the people and the
country. Then again, the Victoria brings a few families here
on their way to the river to settle. They must be encouraged
by meeting so many here, returning."
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_New Era_, Thursday, March 9, 1843.
(Contains notice of "Travels in the Great Prairie
Wilderness, the Anahuac and Rocky Mts., and in Oregon
Territory," by T. J. Farnham; said to contain full account
of a journey overland and the Methodist missions in the
Territory. Notice copied into "_Era_" from _N. Y. Tribune_,
from which office it is issued.)
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_Republican_, July 22, 1843.
We learn from Maj. Albert Wilson who has just returned from
the Mountains, that he met the Oregon emigrants on the big
Arkansas [Platte], one month after they had left the
settlements, and that they were cheerfully wending their way
onwards. There were 1150 emigrants, 175 wagons, and a great
number of cattle, horses, mules, etc., etc. Lord Stewart and
his party of pleasure, consisting of 100 persons, were three
days in advance of the Oregon emigrants.