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Show 70 Lewis and Clarke's Expedition into a girdle by se-veral cords of the 'iame material. Bein;tied round the middle. tho"io strands hang down as low as the knee in front, and to midleg behind, and arc of suffitient tbh•.kncss to answer the purpose of concealment whilst the female stands jn an erect position, but in any other attitude is hut a vc•·y inelfcctunl clefence. Sometimes the tissue is strin~s of silk grass, twisted and lmotted at the end. Aftet· remaining with them about an hour, we 11roreede~l down the channel with an Indian dt·essed in a sailor's ja(lket for our· pilot, and on rraohing the main channel WE'I'C visited by some Indians who have a tcmpo•·ary residence on a marsb. hiland in the middle of the J•i.vcr, where is a gl'rat. abundan e of water fowl. IIcre the mountainous country again appl'oat~hes the river on the left, and a higher mountain is di ~tiuguished towal'ds the southwest. At adistanec of twenty nailes from our cam}l we halted at a village of Wahkiacmus, consisting of ::.even ill-looking houses, built in the same fo•·rn with those above. and situated at the foot or the high hills on the right, behind two small marshy islands. We ID.l'rt ly ~topped to J>Ul'chase some food aml two beaver skins, and then procecdNJ. Opposite to tlu·s~ islands the hills on the left t'Ptit·r. and the river widens into a ldnd ot' bay ('t'owd· ed with low islands, subject to IJc oYrrflowml occasionally by the tide. \\'e had not gon(' fat· from tllis village wheu tl1r fog clcat•ed off, and we en,joyrd the delightful prOS})cctof the. ocean; that oeean. the o~ject of all our labours, the reward of all our anxidics. 'f'his cheering view exhilirated the spir·its of all the party, who were still more delighted on bear· ing I he di tant roa1· of the breakers. 'Vc wE>nt on with great ehccrl'ulne~s under the high mountaiwous country which <·ontinn('d aloug the right bani~; the shot·c was how· ever so bold and rocl,y, that we could not, until aft('t' going fourteen miles f!'om the last villag~, 1ind any s110t fit fot• an encamvment. At that distance, haYing made dul'ing the day tbit·ty-four milrs. "(~ s1wca(\ our mats on the ground, and passed il1c night in the rain. Here we wcl'c joincal by tur .... '' ., ' |