Sore and weak Eyes are common, maney have lost their Sight entirely
They have all flat heads in this quarter
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river here about 2 1/2 miles wide.
The ebb tide rose here about 9 Inches,
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The Fog So thick this morning that we could not See a man 50 Steps off...
extensive low country on each Side thickly timbered.
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he gave us a roundish roots about the Size of a Small Irish potato
dureing the time we were at dinner those fellows Stold my pipe Tomahawk
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We are all wet Cold and disagreeable rain Continues & encreases
In my walk of to Day I saw 17 Striped Snakes I killed a grouse
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one of the Indians Spoke a fiew words of english
dried our bedding and Kill the flees,
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we with dificuelty found a place Clear of the tide and Sufficiently large to lie on
Great joy in camp we are in view of the Ocian this great Pacific Octean which we have been So long anxious to See.
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we are all wet and disagreeable, as we have been Continually for Severl. days past,
The Seas roled and tossed the Canoes in Such a manner this evening that Several of our party were Sea Sick.
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our camp entirely under water dureing the hight of the tide,
The water of the river being too Salt to use we are oblidged to make use of rain water-
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we got a Safe place for our Stores and formed a Campment on Drift logs
nothing to eate but dried fish pounded which we brought from the falls.
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a hard rain all the last night we again get wet
the trees we camped on was all on flote for about 2 hours from 3 untill 5 oClock P M,
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their robes & leather Clothes are rotten from being Continually wet,
It would be distressing to See our Situation , all wet and colde our bedding also wet,
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we are in a Cove & the Mountains verry high & Pine Spruce verry high & thick
I saw a Small red Berry which grows on a Stem of about 6 or 8 Inches from the Ground, the taste insipid.
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Capt. Lewis is object is also to find a Small Bay as laid down by Vancouver
if we have Cold weather before we Can kill & Dress Skins for Clothing the bulk of the party will Suffer verry much.
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The Indians Speake a Different language The Call themselves Chin nooks,
our men all Comfortable in their Camps which they have made of boards from the old Village above.
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one man Sick with a violent Cold, Caught by lying in his wet Clothes, Several nights
our hunters and fowlers killd 2 Deer 1 Crane & 2 ducks,
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the name of the nation is Chin-nook and is noumerous live principally on fish roots a fiew Elk and fowls.
Capt Lewis returned haveing travesed Haleys Bay to Cape Disapointment
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Those hills are founded on rocks & waves brake with great fury against them,
men appear much Satisfied with their trip beholding with estonishment the high waves dashing against the rocks & this emence ocian
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after takeing a Sumptious brackfast of Venison which was rosted on Stiks exposed to the fire, I proceeded on
I proceeded on the Sandsy Coast 4 miles, and marked my name on a Small pine, the Day of the month & year, &c.
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I was overtaken by three Indians one of them gave me Some dried Sturgeon and a fiew wappato roots,
found maney of the Chin nooks with Capt. Lewis of whome there was 2 Cheifs Com com mo ly & Chil-lar-la-wil
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The nation on the opposit Side is Small & Called Clap-sott,
we gave to the men each a pece of ribin
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O! how horriable is the day waves brakeing with great violence against the Shore
those roots are equal to the Irish potato, and is a tolerable Substitute for bread
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I marked my name the Day & year on a Alder tree,
This nation is the remains of a large nation destroyed by the Small pox or Some other
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Janey in favour of a place where there is plenty of Potas.
The Elk being an animal much larger than Deer, easier to kiled better meat
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Several Indians Came up from below, we loaded and Set out up the river,
The Swells too high to cross the river, agreeabley to our wish
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they ask emence prices for what they have to Sel Blue Beeds is their great trade
they are fond of Clothes or blankits of Blue red or brown
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one Canoe Split before we Got her out of the Water 2 feet-
The water at our Camp Salt that above the isthmus fresh and fine-
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the pieces of Sales & tents So full of holes & rotten that they will not keep any thing dry,
O! how disagreeable is our Situation dureing this dreadfull weather.
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send out the hunters they killed 4. deer 2 brant a goos and seven ducks,
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all the others engaged drying their leather before the fire, and prepareing it for use-
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I derect that in future that the party mix the pounded fish with fresh water-
my hunters killed three Hawks, which we found fat and delicious, they Saw 3 Elk
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