They left with this design on the 12th.

At the end of five days Mr.Mumford returned in a canoe of Indians.

This man having wished to assume the command, and to order (in the style of Captain Thorn) the person who had engaged him to obey, had been sent back in consequence to _Astoria_.
On the 10th of November we discovered that three of our people had absconded, viz., P.D.Jeremie, and the two Belleaux.

They had leave to go out shooting for two days, and carried off with them firearms and ammunition, and a handsome light Indian canoe.

As soon as their flight was known, having procured a large canoe of the Chinooks, we embarked, Mr.Matthews and I, with five natives, to pursue them, with orders to proceed as far as the Falls, if necessary.