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Show Lewis a11d Cl,u·ke' s Expedition, &c. to it and becomes an umlulating plain. Two miles aftet' pas~ing a small rapid we reached a point of laigl~land in a bend towards the right, and encamped for the evemog, afte1• a journey of forty-two miles. The river has been about .n quarter of a mile in width, with a current much ~ore Ulll·· form than it wu.s during tl1e last two days· We ktlled tw~ ~eekled gulls, and several ducks of a delicious fiavoux- CHAPTER II. .l he pat-ty in their p~saage still visited by t.hc In1lians-Lepago'• l"iver descr4~ bed-immense quantities of salmon caught by the Jndinns-deacription of tho t•iver Townhnahiooks-Tndian mode of stacking fish, and preparing them for mnket--desoription of the great falls--dcscrilltion of nn Indian cnnoe-nlnnn e xcited by an anticipated attack f1·om the Ehcltoot!l-a very dl\ngerous rapid passed in safety, called by th Indians the Falls-account of the Indian houses m the neiglaboUt·hood-nnother drenllful rapid puned without injul·J-:~oroe account of the Chilluckittequaw lndiana-cn(>tain Clarke examines the great rapide-description of nn lndiun buriai•Illace-the rnpids po.sscu iu safety. Monday 21. 'ruB morning was cool, and the wind from the southwest. At. five and a half miles we passed a !:!mall island. and one mil<.· and a half furtb(•r, anothcl' in the middle of the rivet', which has some rapid wate1· nea1· its head, and opposite to its lower extremity are eight cabins or In~ dians on the right side. \V e landed ncar them to breakfast; but such is the scarcity of wood, that last evening we had not been able to collect any thing except dt·y willows, and of tbcsc not more tlmn barely sufficient to cook out· supl,e•·, and tbis morning we could not find enough even to prcpa•·c bt·ci,kfast. The Indians t•eccived us with great kindne~;s, and examine «\ every thing they saw with much attention. In their <ttlpearance and em)lloyments, as well as in theil' language, they do not differ from those higher up the riV<'t'. The dt·css too is nearly the same; that of the men consisting ol nothing but a short robe or deer or goat skin; while the women weat• only a piece of dt·cssetl skin, falling ft·om the ncek so t\s to covet· the ft·ont ol· the body as low as the waist; a bandage f icd rountl the body and 1•assing between the l<"g~;; and ovet• th.is a sh01·t robe of tlcer and antclo(H~ sldn is ot~casionally thrown. Here we !aw two bhlnl\.cts of s<'arlct, and one of |