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Show 78 Lewis aml Cl ft1'1~e· s E:rpeditiou recent experience of tlleir thievish disposition, treated them with caution. Though so much exposed to the had weather, none of the party have sufft>rC(l. exerpt otw, who bas a violent cold, in eonsequencr of slt•t•ping for several nights in wet leather. 'I'he hunters brought in two tl~cr, a crane, some geese and ducks, and several brant, tlu·r~ of which were white, except a bla~l{ part of tlte wing, and mucb larger than the gray brant, which is itself a size be-yond the duck. . Sunday 17. A fair cool morning ancl eastrrly wmtl. The tide rises at this place eight feet six inches in height, and rolls over the beach in gt·rat waves. About one o'e.lock captain Lewis returned, after having eoastcd down Haley's bay to cape Disa.}lpointmcnt, and some distance to the north along the sea coast. Jlo was followrd by s<·Yrral Cllinnooks, among'" horn wcl'e the pl'incipal chief and his family. 'fhey made us a pl'esrnt of a boiled root, very mueh lih~ the common liquorice in laste and size. and called culwhamo: in t·cturn we ga.ve double the value of their pt·csent, and now learnt t.hc dangl't' of accepting any thing fr·om them, since no rctut·n, even if ten times the value ol" their gil't, can satisf'y them. 'Vc wet·e chiefly occupied in hunting, aml wo•·e able to vrocure three deer, four brant and tWO ducks, anf\ also saW SOtUC signs Of elk. Cat•tain Clarke now pL·eparcd for an excursion down tl1e bay, anti accordingly started, Monday 18, at daylight, accompanied by eleven men. He proceeded along the beach one mile to a 11oint of rocks about fot·ty feet high, \\11e1·e the hills rctit·e, leaving a wide beach, and a numbea· of ponds covered with water-fowl, bew tween which and tbe mountain is a nat•t•ow bottom of alder and small balsam trees. Seven miles from the •·ocks is the entrance of a eret>k, or rather drain from the ponds and bills, where is a cabin of Chinuooks. 'rhe cabin contained some children, and four women, one of whom was io a most miserable state, covered with ulcers, proceeding as we ' Up the Jf!Iissom-1.. imagine, from the venereal disease, with wl1ich several of tht~ Chinnooks we have seen appear to be afflicted. We were taken across in a <'anoe by two squaws, to each of \vhom we gave a fishhook, and then coasting along the bay, passed at two miles the low bluff of a small hill, below which arc the ruins of some ohl huts, and close to it the remains of a w]Ialc. 'l'he eounta·y is low, open and maa>shy; interspersed with some high pine and a thick undergrowth. }"'ive miles from the Cl'cck, we came to a stream foa·ty yards wide at low water, which we called Chinnook river. 'fhe hills up this rivet• and towal'ds the bay arc not bigh, but very thi<·kly covca·cd with large pine of several species: in many places 1•iue trees, three oa· four feet in thickness, arc seen ga·owing on the bodies of' la.r·ge tl·ccs, which though fallen and eovc•·ccl with moss. were in Jlat·t sound. llerc we dined on some brant and plove1·, killed as we came along, and after crossing in a boat lying in the sand ncar some old houses, proceeded along a uluff of yellow clay and soft stone to a little bay ot• harbour, into which n drain from some ponds empties: at this harbour the land is low, but as we went on it rose to hills of eighty or ninety feet above tbc watct·. At the distance of one mile is a second bay, and a mile beyond it, a small rocky island in a deep bend, which seems \o afford a very good liarbour~ and where the natives infot·m us European vessels anchor fot· the pu1•pose of trading. 'Ve went on round another bay, in which is a second small island of rocks, and <~rossed a small stream, which 1·ises in a pond ncar the sea coast, ami a!'tcr running tlu·ough a low isthmus empties into the bay. 'rhis nat·row low gl'onnd, about two or tbreo bun· d1·ed yat·ds wide, sepa1·atcs from the main hills a kind of I•eninsula, the extremity of which is two miles from the anchoring place; atMI this spot, whiclt was called cape Dis~ apJwintment, is an elevated, cit·eular knob, rising with a steel) ascent one ltuudt•ed and fifty or ono hundred and sixty feet above the water, forolcd like t}Je wbolc shore of the , |