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Show not rlccmcu equally saCJ'CU. The guide infm·med him rul' thr•·, that a small distan<·e auon~ we•·e two bayous, on which wrre a munhcr of small houses bclont;ing to the Cushooks, but t.hat thr inhabitants had all gone up to the falls of the 1\fultnomah, for the purpos(l of fi ·hiug. Eal'ly the nt'Xt .mot·ning eaptain Cl:uke prON'c.·•l<'tl up the l'ivCJ·, whida, du. rin~ the uight, had fallen al.wut iive inebcs. Attho distance of two milt's he came to the cent •·r. of' a. bend under the highlands on the t•ight side, fr·om whiela ils colll·se, as coullllJc disrel'ncd, was t.o tho cast of southeast. At this place the 1\lultnoma.h is five hundl'ed ya•·tls wide, and fot· hall' that distance al'l'OSS, the ('Ol'd of five fathoms WOUld notrearh the bottom. H appeal'S to ue washing away its hanks, ami has 111ore sandua•·s an<l willow points than tho Columbia. Jts regular gentle cm·•·ent, tile depth and !mwothncss, and unifonuity witll whit:b it rolls its vast body ot' watet·, I)J'OVO that its supplies aa·e at once di~tant and reguhu·; nor,judging fa·om its appearance and coua·scs, is it l'~1sh to believe that the 1\lultnomah and its tr·ihntar·y stt•rarns watm· the -vast cxtrnt ol' t•.ounta·y between f he westc1·n mounfains anti Hwsc of tltr st•acoast, as far Jlerhaps as tile watea·s o(' the gulf of Calil'ot·nia. About eleven o'<·lo~·k he •·eachctl fhe. house of the 1\<·<•t·chokioo, whidt he now found to coutain eight families; hut they were all so much alarmrd at hi!:i pn·scnce, notwith~lancling his visit JCsteJ•flay, that he l'C· mainc<l a. very few minutes only. Soon aner· scUiug out, he met five <.mnoes filled with the same nurnbe1· of families, uc,.. longing to 1 he Shahala. nation. They we1·c descending the riveL' in search of subsistence, and scemt'd v~r'y dcsit·ous ot' coming alongside of the hoat; llUt as there were twenty-one men on hoard, and the guide said that all tltcse Shalmlas, as well as theit· relations at the house which we had just l~ft, were mischievous bad men, they were not suffered to ap ... JWoadt. At thr·cc o'clock he halted fot• an hom· al the Nochet'olcc house, where his guide resided. This large buildIng is two bun«lrell and twenty-six feet iu front, cutil'c~ Up t1u .JJ-IissnuJii. 221 al1o'e gPound, mut may be considt>rcd as a. siugle house, Lccausc the whole is untlet• one roof; otherwise it would seem more like a J'ange of buildings, as it is divicled into seven distinct apartments, c.·aeh thirty feet s•1uare, by means of bt•oad boards set on end t'1·om the floor to the roof. The apartments are separated ft·om raeh othc.'r by a Jlassagc or alley four· feet wide, extending through the whole depth of the house, and the only cnt1·anec is ft·om this allt·y, through a smalJ hole about twent)'-two in<·hcs wide, and not more than 1hl'ee feet high. The roof i!) fOJ·med of rafters and round ]JOles laid on them longitudinally. rrhe whole is covered with a double t•ow of the bark of the white cedar, extending from tl&e top eighteen in<.'IH'S ovcl' the <.~aves, and secul'Cd as well as smoothed by splintc.·t·s of ch·ied fi•·, insct·tcd t}u·ougla it at l't'gulal' uista.llCl'S. ) U this tnatlllCI' the roof is made light, stJ·ong, and <.ltu·ablc. Ncar this laousc al'c the J'emains of several othet· large buildings, sun}{ in the g•·otmd and const t·uet<.•d like those we hau see11 at the gn·at narrows of the Columbia, belonging 1 o the Elouts, with whom these people claim an ~dlinity. In manuel's ami dt•t•ss thc!)C Nechccolcrs ditfct• UUt little ft·om the Quatldaj>Otlcs ant\ OtheJ'S of this twighiJoul'lwod; hut t~a~ir lauguagc is the same usctl hy the Eloots, nnd thou:;h it lms bouu· wonts iu common with the dialects spoken Ltrt·c, yet the" hole ail· of the lant;uage is ouyiously diffcrl'nt. 'l'hc men too ar·c laa·gct·, aml both sexes l>cttet· fot·mcd titan among the nations l>dow; and the females arc c.Hslinguibhl'd by we~u·ing hu·ge•· and longer 1·ol>cs, which are gcncJ·ally of c.lect· ·I,in d1·ess<.·d in the hair, than the neighbouring women. Jn the house were several old pcor>le of both sexes. who we•·e treated with much rospeet, au<l still sc~nwd healthy, though most of them were pcl'f'ectly blind. On inquiring fhe cause of the decline of the it· village, an old mau, the father of tlw guide, and a Jlel'sou of some distinction, bl'ought fot·wal'd a woman very. much marked with the small-pox, and said, that when a girl she was vc.ry ncar dying with the diso1·dcr which ha<l |