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Show 68 Lewis and Clarl~c's Expt'dition lte overtook two canoes goinh' down to t1·adc: one of the In~ dians. who spoke a few wol'(ls of English, mentioned. that the prirwipalllcrson who traded wiH1 them was a Mt•. !laley, and he showed a bow of iron anti sevrr.al ot.l~cr thmgs which he sait.l Mr·. Hal<'y bad givtm him. N me m1les below that rivet· is a t·n·t~k on the same; am\ bctwt·t•n them three smaller islan(ls; one on the lf'ft shon·, the other about the middle of the river; and a t.hh·d near the lowm· t.•mt of the long nat·row island. and O}lpositc a high cliff of hlal'k l'ocks on the left, sixteen miles ft•om our camp. Ilt•t•e we were overtak<'n hy the Indian from the t'vo tents we pass<·d in tlu• morning. ft·om whum we now pm·claascd wavpatoo •·oots, salmon, trout, and two braver skins. for which last we gave five small iishhooks. At these cliff.-; ibc monnt~ins, which had conOnucd high and rug~cd on the left, retll'cd ft·om the river, and as tho hills on ihe other Ride had left the water ~t the Cowcliskc, a beautiful <>xtcnsivc ()lain now presented its<>lf bcfor·r us: for a few miles we J>asscd along side of an islam\ a mile in width and three miles long, below whic•h is a smalJer island, whct·e the high rugged bills, thickly covered wiH1 timber. border the l'ight ~ank of the river, anll terminate the low grounds: these were supplied with common rushes, hr·ass, and neHles; in the moister parts with bullrushcs and flags, and along the watf•r's edge some willows. Here also were two ancient villages, now abandoned by their inhabitants, of whom no vestige •·emains, cxce}lt two small dogs almost stat·ved. and a prodigious qua,ntity of fleas. After crossing the plain and makin~ five miles, we proceeded through the hills fot• eight miles. 'J'he •·ivcr is about a mile in width, and the hills so steep that we could not for scvcr~l miles fine) a place sufficiently level to suffer us to sleep in a level position: at lengtlJ, by J'emoving the la1·ge stones, we cleared a place fit for our purpose ahove the reach of the tide, and af'ter a journey of twenty-nine miles slept among the smaller stones umlet• a mountain to the right. 'l'he weather was rainy during the whole day; l!p Ute Missouri. we tllel'efore made large fart>s to dry our bedding and to kill the neas, who have accumulated upon us at every old vii· lage we have pass~d. Thursday 7. The morning was rainy and the fog so thick tbat \\C could not see across the river. Wf' ob~crv~d how-'evr1 ·. opposite to our camp. the upp('l' point of an island. be~ twr(·n which and the stee1l hills on the t·ight we pr·oceeded fo•· five milt>s. Three mil~s lower is the h<'ginning of an island sevarated from the right shore by a narrow channel; down this we proceeded under thl" dh·ection of Rome Indians whom we had just met going up the river, and who returned in ot·clet· to show us tlu.·il' ''ill age. It consists of fmu houses only, situated on this clumnel behind several marshy islands formed by two small ct·ee~s. On our arrival they gave us some fish, and we al'fcrwat•ds purchased wappatoo roots, fish, three (\ogs, and two otter skins, for which we gave fish hooks chiefly, that. being an article of which they are very fond. 'rhcsc people seem to be of a different nation from thost we have ,just pas!Sefl: they art.~ low in stature, iJl shaped, and all have their heads flatt(•ne<l. They call themselves w~Lb kiacum, and their language diff~s·s fa·om that of the trilJe~ above. Witll whom they tt·adc for wavl>aCoo l'OOts. The houses too arc bMilt in a different style, being raised cntir·cly ahovc ground, with the eaves about five feet high, and tbc door at the corner. Near the end opposite to this door is a single iit·cplace, round which are the beds, raised four feet from the floor of earth~ over the fire aa·e hung the ft·csh fish, and when dried they arc ·towed away with the wappa~ too roots under the beds. The dress of the men is like that of the people above, hut the women arc clad in a peculiar manner·, the r·obe not reaching lower· than the hip, and the body being covet·ed in cold weather by a sos·t of <~or·sct of fur, curiously })laited, and reaching fr·om the arms to the l1ip; added to this is a sot·t. of JlcUi •oat~ or l'ather tissue of white erdar bark, bruised .,r broken into small strands, and wovt'n |