Chapter 56
Affairs of State at Astoria.--M'Dougal Proposes for the Hand of An Indian Princess--Matrimonial Embassy to Comcomly.-- Matrimonial Notions Among the Chinooks.--Settlements and Pin-Money.--The Bringing Home of the Bride.--A Managing Father-in-Law.--Arrival of Mr. Hunt at Astoria. WE have hitherto had so much to relate of a gloomy and disastrous nature, that it is with a feeling of momentary relief we turn to something of a more pleasing complexion, and record the first, and indeed only nuptials in high life that took place in the infant settlement of Astoria. M'Dougal, who appears to have been a man of a thousand projects, and of great, though somewhat irregular ambition, suddenly conceived the idea of seeking the hand of one of the native princesses, a daughter of the one-eyed potentate
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