Nov. 1st.¹Saturday. this being a day of rest for the people accordingly they were not put to work. Took a ride out towards the crossing place of Nesqually river (Yelm) in hopes of meeting some one from Vancouver but was disappointed. Passing showers all day.

[There are no records between November 1st and November 11th 1834.]

11th. Tuesday. The same employment as yesterday. Late this evening Rivet with a Pork eater (Chinaman) arrived with the express from which reached Vancouver. The Doctor is very anxious about the non-arrival of the Dryad and I am sorry to say we have no news of her as yet. The same duty for the men.

[There is no record for the 12th.]

13th. Thursday. Sent Ouvre with Mr. Yales Packet, he is to give it to the first Chief he meets with on the track. The men employed as usual. The same weather clowdy.

14th. Friday. The same occupation for the men. I have been very unwell all day and I am now barely recovered. Indians come in as usual for the purpose of getting ammunition. Clowdy and rainy.

[There are no records between the 14th and the 20th of November 1834]

20th. Thursday. the same employment for the men as yesterday. Neidlum and party away, and another band arrived with furs to trade. We are really at a loss of what keeps the vessel from coming. It is to be hoped that everything to the northward is safe, and that it is only the unfavorable state of the weather that detains the shop from coming to us as ordered by Mr. Chief Factor McLaughlin. The nights are now colder and the fogs very dense about us in the morning.

21st. Friday. No change in or work or situation all dull and unpleasant. Weather much as yesterday, but colder in the night.

22nd. Saturday. The ploughers have done only one fourth of acre this day and very hard work for the oxen. The lining of the Fort Pickets is now completed and the saddles also. Today we trade 11 Fresh Salmon which is very good, and this fish continues so far in the winter season. Delightful weather.

23rd. Sunday. The weather continues pleasant.

24th. Monday. The ploughers did very little this day owing to the plough being out of order. The rest of the men variously employed. The natives have more fresh Salmon as also venison and fowls we are now living on the fat of the land. Fair weather.

25th. Tuesday. Sent two men to Nesqually river for cedar boards in order to cover an Indian house which we are on the eve of erecting outside of the Fort for strangers. The ploughers have done much better today than yesterday working in the field. Anawiseun McDonald is making wheelbarrows. Louis' wife gave birth to a daughter. Traded a couple of beaver skins from a Chief of the Soquamish tribe he got a damaged capot 4lbs. for them. Fair and more delightful weather.

26th. Wednesday. The ploughers have done the spot of ground mentioned on the 6th inst., it is to be erected outside of the stockade. The wheelbarrows completed. Fair weather.

27th. Thursday. Got the wood cut yesterday hauled home today and the men have employed building. Traded six beaver skins from Atssaylem and other Chirkaylitz Indians. Fair weather.

28th. Friday. Began building up the Indian hut. One man on the sick list. The Indians come in as usual with something to trade, however we will have but few for the winter month. Our oxen are now very much fatigues and on that account have stopped ploughing for a few days. Rained much last night.

29th. Saturday. The Indians hut completed and now we are fairly settled for the winter in regard to indoor work. We shall now continue our ploughing and endeavor to get polls for our fence. The Indians from nigh hand come in and brought us a few fresh salmon which are really very fat, so much so that it is impossible for me to eat any of them. The weather continues fair.

30th. Sunday. This month trade is really poor and the Indians have so many on us that the expenses in tobacco was more than usual.

56 large beaver 32 small do. 17 otters 28 rats 2 fishers

lb. cutting beaver 1 chiv. skin 1 elk skin 30 fresh salmon 39 geese

192 ducks 14 animals 1 keg roots 3 ops. salmon 5 raccoons