THE LAST INTERVIEW.



also, were sick with measels and the dysentery, which fol-
lowed the disease. A child of one of them died the day
following Mr. Spalding's arrival.
  Dr. Whitman's family consisted of himself and wife,
a young man named Rodgers, who was employed as a
teacher, and also studying for the ministry, two young
people, a brother and sister, named Bulee, seven orphaned
children of one family, whose parents had died on the
road to Oregon in a previous year, named Sager, Helen
Mar, the daughter of Joe Meek, another little half-breed
girl, daughter of Bridger the fur-trader, a half-breed
Spanish boy whom the Doctor had brought up from in-
fancy, and two sons of a Mr. Manson, of the Hudson's
Bay Company.
  Besides these, there were half-a-dozen other families at
the mission, and at the saw-mill, twenty miles distant, five
families more-in all, forty-six persons at XWaiilatpu, and
fifteen at the mill, who were among those who suffered by
the attack. But there were also about the mission, three
others, Joe Lewis, Nicholas Finlay, and Joseph Stanfield,
who probably knew what was about to take place,' and
may, theref6re be reckoned as among the conspirators.
. While Mr. Spalding was at Waiilatpu, a message came
from two Walla-Walla chiefs, living on the Umatilla River,
to Dr. Whitman, desiring him to visit the sick in their
villages, and the two friends set out together to attend to
the call, on the evening of the 27th of November. Says
Mr. Spalding, referring to that time: "The night was
dark, and the wind and rain beat furiously upon us. But
our interview was sweet. We little thought it was to be
our la~st. With feelings of the deepest emotion we called
to mind the fact, that eleven years before, we crossed this
trail before arriving at Walla-Walla, the end of our seven
months' journey from New York.   We called to mind



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