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Show tlU Lew1s wut Clcu·kc's l~XJ.Jedition views in nature presents itself. Immcdiat.cly in ft•out is th£' ocean, which breaks with fury on the coast, fa·om the roc.lis of cape Disappointment as fat• as the eye can discern to the northwest, and against the highlands and irrcguhLr piles of 1·oek which diversify the shore to the southeast. To this boisterous scene, the Columbia, with its tributar~ waters. widening into bays as it approaches the oceau, ancl studtlt•d on both sides with tlac Chinnook and Clatsop villa~c s, forms a charming contrast; while immediately beneath our fecC. at·e sti·etchetl the rich pt·airics, enlivened by three llCautit'ul streams, which conduct the eye to smalL lakes at the foot or the hills. '"' c stop1>ed to enjoy the ro~ mantic view fr·om this place, whieh we clistinguishcd by tho name of Clat·kc's Point of View, and then followed out• l)'uide down the mountain. The descent was steep and dan~ ~ :;erous: in many I•laccs the hill sides, which m·e formed prinei pal ly of yellow cla.y, has been washed by the late rains, and is now slipping into the sea, in large masses of fifty and an hundred acres. In other parts, the path crosses the rugged perpendicular l'Oeks which overhang the sea, into which a false step would have precipitated us. 'l'he mountains at•e covered with a very thick growth or timber, chief~ ty pine and fir; some of wbich, neat• Clarke's Point of View, 11erfectly sound and solid, rise to the height of two hundred and ten feet, and arc fr·om eight to twelve in diameter. Intermixed is the white cedar, or arbor vitre, and a small quan~ tity of black aldm·, two or tht~ec rcet thick, and sixty or seventy in height. At ~ngth we r eached o. single house, the rema.ins of an old Killamuck village, situated among some l'Ocl\.s, in a l•ay immediately on the coast. 'V e then conti~ nucd for two miles along the sand beach; and after~ crossing . a creek, eighty yards iu width, ncar which arc :five cabins, '\'eached the I,lace where the waves had thr·own the whale on shore. The animal bacl been placed between two Killa~ muck villages, and such ha<l been their industry, that thet·c now rl:'maim~d nothin~ more than the !'kdPton. wl1i~h 1'\'r Ujl tIre JUissouri. 111 found to be one hundt•cd and fhre feet in length. Captain Chuke then rctm·ned to the vilJage of ii ve Ia uts, on the creek, to which he ga vc the name of Ecola, or " 'hale creek. The natives were all busied in boiling the blubber~ in a lat·ge squaa·c tr·ongh of wood, by nwans or hca.t.cd stones. and pr·esc•·ving Oae oil, thus cx ta·a.c tetl, in Lladtlcr s and the cntl'ails ol' the whale. 'l~hc refuse of the Lluhl.Hw, which stW contained a {JOJ·tU>n or oil, arc hung up iu Jar·gc flitches, nd when wanted foa· usc. arc warmed on a wood~n spit Lcfore the fire, and eaten c~ithcl' alone, or dipped in oil, or with roots of the rush and shanataquc. Tlu:sc Killanuwlis. though tbcy had great quantities, parted wilh it l'cluctant ly, and at such high prices~ that our· "hole !'tock of me1• chamlise was exhausted in Hac pm•cJmse of aLout three hun dred pounds of blubber, aml a few gallons of oiJ. 'Viih these we set out to r eturn; and h a Ying ct·osscd .Ecola ct·l'ck, encamped on its hank, whct·c thet·e was abundance of fine t iml.Jer. 'Ve WCI'C soon joined hy the men of the village. with whom we smokcll, &md who gave us all the infot·matiou they possessed, rcla.tiyc to their countl'y. These Killa mucks arc 1mrt or a much larger nation of the same name, ami they now t·csidc chiefly in fom· villages, each at the entrance of a. Cl'eck, all of which fall into a hay on the southwest coast; llmt at which we now a1·c, IJciug the most north·· ern, and at the distance of about forty-lire mHes southeast of ~oint Adams. 'l'he rest or the nation at·c scaUe a·cd along the coast, aml on the banks ot' a river, whieh, as we found it ~n the!r dclincut.ions, we called KilJamuck's t·ivcr, cmJJtyiug Jtself m the same dit·ection. During the salmon season the) catch great quantities of that fish, in the small creeks, and when they fail, theit• chief resource was the stua·geon and other :fish stranded along the coast. The elk were very numerous in the mountains, but they could not J•roeurc ma ny of them with their• as·rows; and theia· principal commu~ ication with strangers, was by means or the Killamuck rner, up which they passed to the Sho(,atileum (or Colum- .. |