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Show Lewis atad Cla1·ke's EXj>eclitwn :river, ,vbilc on th~ left the mountain ios till high and rugged. At. t.wo miles diMtanel' he came to a. village or four hun..,t•s, wbich were now val·an4 and the do01·s h;n•red tilt: on Jnokiug in he saw the usual quantity of utensils still t'l'tnnining, from which he conclu<h•d that t.br iuhahitants wt·t·c a4 no great distance collrt'iing roots or hunting. in ot•d(•t• to lay in their supply of food foJ' the wiutct•: h Jeff them and w•-nt en thi'CO miles to a. difih·ult t·ocky t•apid~ which was the last in view. Here~ on the t•ight. arc the t·cumins or a l:u·g<' and ancient villag<'. which could be pla.inlJ tr.icrd hy the holt•s for the houses and the depc.sits lot· fish: aJ't(•r• he had t'X· ominell thcs..- rapids and the neighbour'ing .countr·y laf' ''e• turned to camp by the sam<' J'OUt<': the only game he had obtained was a sandhill m·ane. In the ffi('antimc we had been occUI)iC(l in preparation · fo1• making thl' portagl', and ·n conference with the lndians. who came down from the -village to visit us. Towards cvcuing two canoes aJTived from the vilJage at the mouth oft:atar·a.ct river.load(•d with fish and bears' grease for the market below: as soon as they Jandcd they unloaded the canoes~ tm·ncd them upside down on the beach, and encamped under· a shelving rock near our camp. We had an opportunity of seeing to-day tlu~ ha1•di· hood or the Indians or the ncighiJou•·ing village: one of tlJ.c men shot a goose, which fell into the rivet·. and \\'as floating rapidly towards the gt·cat whoot, whrn a.n Indian oust>•·ving it }lhmged in after it: the whole mass of the waters of Hte Columbia, ju~t pt'C}lariug to descend its nal'l·ow c·hanncl, carrird the animal down with great I'apidity: the l1ulian fuJJowrd it fe~u·lessJy to within ont hundr('d and fifty fl•t•.f of the rocks, whea·c he would inevitably have been daslwd to pieces; but seizing his prey he turned round and swam asho1·c with great composure. We very willingly relinquished oul" · right to the bird in fn.vout· of the Indian who ha(\ thus saved it at the imminent hazard of his life: he immediatdy set to WOl'k, and piel\ed otrabout halfthcfcathcrs. and then without Oilcning it rau a stick through it and c~u·•·icd it off to roa"t Up the JUissouri. 55 Friday, November t, 1805. 'l'hc morning was cool and tbe ,, ind high from the northeast. 'l'he Indians who arriyed last night. took thcil' empty canoes on theiL· shoulders and cat·1·ied them below the great shoot, where they put them in tbc water and brought them down the l'apid. till at the distan<'c of two and a half miles they stoppcc.4 to take in tt1ch· loading. whieh they ltad been afl'aid to trust in the last rapid, and had therefore carried by land from the bea(l of the shoot. · After their cxamllle we carl'ietl our small canoe, and all the bagg~gc aCl'OSS the hlip~ery rocks, to the foot of the shoot. 'l'he foul' lar·gc l\anot•s were next brought down, by slipping them aloug poles, placed from one rock to anothm·, and in some lllaces by w~ing l)artially streams which esca .. pt·d along side of the rher. \Ve were not, howcvet·, able to IJring tbPm ae~·o~s without th1·ce of them receiving anjuri ·s, which o!Jtiged us to stop at the~ end or the ~hoot to t·cpair· them. At this shoot we saw gt·eat numbers of seaottct'S; llut they are so shy that it is difficult to reach them with the mtt!)ket : ouc of tbcm that was wounded to-day ~nuk and was lo!!t. llavin~ uy this 1wrtagc avoided 1he ra llid and shoot of four hundred yanls in length, we I'c-eml. Hu·ked. 1msscd at a mile and a half tllC bad rapid Oilposite to the old village on the l'ight., a.ud making om· way tlu·ough the rocks, saw the house just below the end of the pol'tago; the eight vaults near it; and at the distance or four miles l'l'om the head of the shoot, I'ea ched a bigh rock, which forms the upJ>Cl' part of an island ncar the left shore. De~ tween this island ami the right shore we proceeded, lcavint; at the distance of a mile ami a half, the village of four hou:, eM on our r·ight., and a mile and a half lowe1· came to the hco.d of a rapid neal' the village on the right. llere we halted fot· tlw night, having made only seven miles from the head of the shoot. During the whole of the passage tlte river is vet•y much obstructed by rocks. ,.rhe island, whieh is about three miles long, 1·eaches to tbe rapid which |