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Show Yehhuhs, 'Vah~ldlahs. Cla.helella.l•s~ and Nccrrl10kioos, whu compose the Sbahala nation. On com1mriug the ,·ocabula1·y of the Wahdcllahs with tlt;lt of the Chinnooks, we found that the names for numbers wc•·c Jlrceisrly the same, though the other parts of the language were essentially different. The women of all these ta·ibcs braicl thcil· hair, pict·ce the nosc, :and some of them havo lines of dots rcat·hing from tho ancle as high as the middle of the leg. These Yehhuhs behaved with great propriety, und condl·mned the trt>atment we had rr.ceived from the 'VahclcJlahs. We pur·cha eel from one of them the skin of a sht•el, killrcl twar this plaec. for '"hicb we gave in exchange t)w sldns of a dt·rr and an t•Ik. These animals. he tt~lls us, us11ally fl't'()U~nt the rol'ky parts f)r the mountains. wblwc they aa•c found )n g••t•at numhe•·s. The· highm·n is also an inhabitant of tht•se mountains, and tlw natives have sevt•ral rours mad~ of their skins. The mountains near this place at·e high. stt·rp. aml ·tt·ewetl witlt rocks. which ~re 1winci{.ally hh\(·k. 8cve1·al specirl-1 of fir, white pine, and white cedar, r().l·ms thci l' ~.'oYcri.ng, while near the river WC sec the cottonWOOd, SWf'd· willow, a. S\)CCies of maple, the broad-leafed ash, the }lUT'{lle haw, a small spt·cics of chcra•y, the purple r.urt·aot, goosrbt·rry, red-willow, the vining and 'vhitcuet·ry honeysuckle, the huckld>rny, sac·aoomrnis, two ldnds or mountain holly. aml the common ash. Sunday 13. The loss of our perio.r;uc yesterday oblige~ 11s to dist•·ilmtc our loading between the two e~mocs, and the two remaining veriogues. 'l'lJis bt'ing done. we proct-(l(lt'd along the nortb side of the river, hut ..w on finding that the inct·rascd loading rendered our Ycsscls diffi<·ult to man~g~·, jf not dangerous in case of high wind, the two 1H.'1'iogucs only continued on thch· •·outc, while cap.t.ain Lcwii with the canoes crossed over to the Yehhub village, " ·ith a 'View o( purchasing one or hro moa·c canoes. The village now consisted of eleven houses, cr·owtlccl with inhabitants, anti nbont sixty fighting men. 'l'hcy wcr·~ Yet·y wt'll disl)Oscd, and we f6und no difficulty in procuring two small canoes, in exchange Up the .1Jfissow·f. fot· two robes an<l four elk skins. 'Ve also purchased with derr skins, three dog3, an animal which has now become a fa.-oUl·itc food, fot· it is fnund to be tL stt·ong healthy dict1 prefe1·aMe to lean deer Ol' elk, and mu~h !iupct•ior to horseDcsh in any state. 'Vith these he pt·occeded along the south sille of the rivet·, and joined us in the evening. 'Vc had gonQ along the not·th shore as high as Cruzattc's J•iver, to which place we d sent some huntet·s the day before yesterday, and whca·c we wc1·c detained by the high winds. 1"'hc hun .. ters howevct• did not join us, and we thcrc·fol'c, as soon as the 1Vind had aba.tecl, lll'Occcdml on for six miles, where we haltted fot· ca1,taiu Lewis, and in the meantime went out to hunt. 'Ve l,roeu•·cd two Llack-tailed fallow d<>er, which seem to l:m the only kind inhabiting these mountains. Believing that tbe hunters were still ln·low us, we despatched a small canoe hack fot· them, and in the moruing, Apt·ili·~, they all joined us with four more deer. Aftm• breakfast wo resumed our journey, anti though the wind was high during the day, yet by keeping along the northern ~bore, we weoo al.Jle to pro\~ced without \langcr. At one o'clock w<~ halted fot· dinner· at a hu·ge village situated in a narrow llottom, just above the entrance of Canoe creek. 'l'ho Jwuses art~ deta<!hcd from each other. so as to occupy an extent of sevet·nl rnil\•.s, though only twenty in number. Those which arc inhahitt~d arc on the sul'f"acc of the earth, and built in the same shape as those neat· the rapids; but th~r~ were othet•s at llrescnt evacuated, whh·b a1·c e,om,,Ic£cly under ground. They are sunk about eight feet deep, and co· Yel·ed with strong timbers, and scYeral feet of earth in a conical f'oa·rn. On descending by meat1s of a ladder through a hole at the top) which answers the double purpose of a doQl' and a chimney, we foupd tlaat the house consisted of a single 1·oom, neal'ly eirculnr and about sixteen feet in diameter. '11he inhabitants, who call themselves Weoeksock,viUa ~ cum, ditft:~ but litd.e u·o• those uellf tbe rnpidtt, the ch ~ef r |