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Show on ,vhicl1 we must depend fot· subsistence as we ret urn, to venture on ()Urchasing. rro ascertain hOWCVCl' fheh· idras a $ to the yalue of dilft•rcnt objects, we offc•·ctl for onc of the skins a watch, a handkerchief, an American dolJar, and a bunch of red beads; but neither the curious mechanism of the watch, nor even the red beads could tcm})t him; he l'efused the offer, but asl·ed for tiacoruoshack or chief be<lds, the most common sort of coarse blue-coloured beads, the article beyond all price in Oteit· estimation. Of these blue beads ''e have but few, and tltm·efor(} reserve them for mOt·e necessitous circumstauceR. Sunday 21)... The morning being fait·, we dried our wet articles and sent out tho hunters, but they returned with onJy a, single ln·ant. In the evening a chief and several men of the Chinnooks came to sec us; we smoked with them, and bought a sca-otteJ' skin for some blue beads. Having now examined the coast, it becomes ncecssa•·y to decide on the sJJOt for our· wintering quarters. 'rho pcO}lle of the country subsist chiefly on dried Jish ami roots, but of these there does not seem to be a suflicicnt quantity for our support, even were we able to purchase, and the extravagant prices as well as om· small store of merchandise forbid us to d('pcnd on that t•csom·cc. 'V e must there fore rely for subsistence on om· arms, and be guid<·d in the choiee or our l'Csidcnec by the abundance of game which any varticu}ar spot may oflcr. rrhc Indians say that the dct·t· is most numerous at some distance above on the rive1•, but that tile countr·y on the op11ositc side of the bay is bcttct· supplied with elk, an animal much larger and more easily 1\illed than <leCI', with a skin better fitted fo•· clothing, and the meat of which is more nutritive during the winter, when they are both poor. 'fhe climate too is obviously much milder here than above the first range of mountains, for the Indians are thinly clad, and sny they have little snow; indeed since our arrival the weather has been very wat·m. and sonactimcs disagreeably so: and dt•csscd as we at·e altogcthet· in leather, the 8il oold wouM be very unpleasant if not injurious. The neigh· bourhood or the sea is moreover •·ecomnumdcd by the facility of supplying out'&elvcs with salt, an<l the ho1,e of meeting some of t.Lac trading vcsseh;, who ar·e expected in alwut three months, and from whom we may l>rocm'c a ft•esh supply of trinkets for out• route homewards. 'nH•sc eon!:!idcrations induct.• d us to dctet·minc on visiting the opposite side or the bay, and if thN'C was an appearance of mu.ch game to esta· blish ourselves tiH't'e du1·ing the wintcl'. Next day, Monday 25, however·, the wind wa~ too high to suffer us to cross the river, but as it blew generally l't·om Uw cast southeast, the coast on the not·th wa.s in ·orne degree shel~ ter~d by the highlands. \Vc th("refore set out, a.ul keeping neat• the shore, halted fot• dinner in the shallow bay, and after tlark, reached a spot neal~ a rocl~. at some distance in tho river, and close to our f01·mer camp of the 7th inst. On leaving our camp, seven Clatsops accompanied us in a canoe. lmt after going a few miles ct•ossed the bay through immense higla waves, lcaviug us in admiration, at the dexterity wjfh which they th1·cw aside each wave as it threatened to eome over their canoe. rrhc evening was cloudy, and in the morning, Tuesday 2u, it rainctl. 'Ve set out with the wintl from ('ast northeast, and a sho1·t distance above the roc]\,. neat· out• caHt(>, IJcgau to ct•oss the rivc1·. We (lasscd be~ tween some low, mal'Shy islands, which we called the Seal islands, and reached the south side of the Columbia at a bottom three miles below a point, to which we gave the name ol' point Samuel. After going along tbe shore fot• five miles, we entered a channel two hundt·ed ya1·cls in width, which se1)a1'ates ft·om the main land a large, but. low is)a.uc.l. On this channel, and at the foot or some bigblamls, is a. village, where we landed. It consists of nino large wooden houses, iuhahitcd lJy a triuc called Cathlamahs, who seem to differ· neithe1· in (h·css, language, uo•· mannea·s, from thr Cbinnook~ :mel 'Vahki~HHnu~: lik..- whom they live chicH~· |