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Show 20.8. Lewis antl Clad~c's l~X]1Ctlition of the seaJ, which was a valuaiJlc addition to the lean ell\. 'J,he low grounds which we 1mssed arc supplied with cottonwood, and the tree resembling tho ash, cxcq1t in its leaf, '\vitb re(l wiJlow, IJL•oad-lcafcd willow, seven bark, ~;ooscbcrry. gt·ccn bt·iar, aml the la•·ge-lcafetl thot·n. rJ'hc wind 'vas very high towat·ds evening, ami continucll to blow so ''iolcut in the morning, Mat·ch 26, that we could not set out before ci~;ht o'c]ocli:. In the meantime finding that one of our neighbours, the Cathlamahs, by name 'Va.llale, was a pcl·son of distinction, we gave him a medal of a. small size, with which he was in . vested with the usual ccrcmOl~ics. lie apJlcat·ed highl) gratified, aml requited us with a lat•gc sturgeon. The wind having abated, we proceeded to an old village, where we halted fol' dinner, having met on the way Salmwacap the Ill'incipal chief of all the <Jathlamahs, who was on his rc· ttu·n fL·om a trading voyage up the rivet', with wapvatoo aml iish, some of which he gave us, an<l we purchased a ]ittlc more. At. dinner we were overtaken by two 'Vahkincum:;, who have been following us fot· twenty-four hours, with two dogs, fot• which they are importuning us to give them some toua('co; !Jut as we }&ave very little or that ~n·tic le left, thry w~t·c obliged to go off tUsappointcd. 'Vc rcccivc•l at the same time an agreeable sup}>ly of three eagles and a. large goose, ln·ought in by the huntet·s. Ancr t.linnct· we passed along tlJc not·th shot•e opposite to a high fine bottom and cll'y pl'ail'ic, at the UJlpcr cntl of wh.ich, neat• a gt'OVI) of white · oak ti·ccs, is an island which we called l 4'anny's island. The1·c wet·e some dec•· anll elk nt a distance in the prai1·ir, but as we could not stay to hunf, we continued till Jate in tlw cn'ning. \\ lwn we encamped on t.llC next .island above Fann)' S. Ac<'onling to the estimate we made in descending the s·in:r, which we begin, however, to think was short, om· Journ('y of to-day was cightrcn miles. Sorne Indians came to us. but we we1·c oecupictl in p•·ocul·in;; wood, which we found it difficull to oblain in s ufficient quantity for oul' purposes, ~uul thry thc r·(ifm·r ~~i(l not r('mnin long. Vp the ..il'IissouJ'i. 209 rrhursday, 2i. 'V c set out early, aml were soon joined by some Skilloots, with fish and roots for sale. At ten o'clock we stopped to breakfast at two houses or tltc same nation, 'vhct·c we found our hunters, who had not rctm·nc(l to camp last night, but had killed nothing. 'l'he inhabitants seemed very ldnd and hospitable. rrhcy gave almost the whole }mrty as much as they could cat of dl'icd anchovies, wappatoo, stu•·gcon, quamash, and a small white tuberous root, two inches long, and as thick as a man's fingct·, which, when <·a.tcn raw, is c1·isp, milky, and of an agreeable fla,·om·. The Indians also urged us to remain with them all day, and 'lllnt elk and deer, which they s:-tid were abundant in the ueighbout'hood_; Lut as the weather would not permit us to dryaml pitch out· canoes, we declined tlwi1· offer and pt'occedcd. At the distance of two miles we pns.-etl the euil·ance ofCowcliskec river. rl'his stt·e~Hll dischargrs itself on the north side of the Columbia, about th•·cc miles above a remat·kaiJiy high l'ocky knoll, the south side of which it washes in vas sing, and which is scpat·ated f1·om the norther·n hills by a wide IJottom of several miles in extent. The Cowclislwe is one humh·cd and flftyyards wide, deep antl naYigablc, as tliC Indians assert, for a cousidcrable distance, and most probably waters the country west and north of the range of mountains which cross the Columbia beh~ern the great falls and rapids. On the Jowct• side of this river, a few miles f1·om its cut.l·ancc info the Co· lumbia, is the principal village ol' the Skilloots, a numerous JlCOple, differing, howcvc1·, neithct· in languagt•, drt.~ss, nor manners, from the Clatsops, Chi nnooks, and other na1 io11! at the mouth of the Columbia. "\Vith the Chinnooks they have lately been at war, and though hostilities have ceased, yet they have not resumed their usual intct·coursc, so that the SkilJoots do not go as t~u· as the sea, nol' do tllC Chinnooks come ltigher up than the Seal islands, the tr·ade between them Leing cart·ic.d on by the Clatsops, Cathlamahs, and 'Vahkiaeums, their mutual f1·iends. On this saUie river, above the Skilloot~, I'esides the nation c:.tllcd liullooetelJ, of vor,. u. v. fl |