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Show 101 Lewis and Clm•ke's E.xjJediliun we conclu.u1 r.u1 t 1t .a •.. one of his nr arents' at least, must hav been completely white. I d. ta"d .. v 1rn}Cse Jl lafiS 5 1 "th us during the night, and left the H fort next morning, . . 'I'htu·sday 2, having dis}losed of theil· mugo lor fislun~- hooks and o.t her tn.i lm. g ~u·t·l c 1e s. Tl1 c hunters l>rouo·ht m b r"' • two elk, and we obta.ined ft·om the tl'aps anothc~·· Ilus animal, as well as the beaver and the rackoon, arc m p~cnty l t . d along the small creeks anc.l rtve•·s tiCal' t te seacoas ' c\.0 as high as the grand rapids, and in this country possesi an. extremely good fur. . The birds which most strike our attentiOn are the large as well as the small or whistling swan, the sandhill crane, the hu·gc ancl small geese, cormorants, brown and wl1ite ~rant, duckauinma11ard, the canvass and sevet·al other spcmcs of ducks. There is also a small crow, thu blue crested corvus, and the smaller corvus with a white bt•east, the little brown wren, a large brown spart·ow, the bald cagl_e, and the b~autiful buzzard of' the Columbia. All these wlld fowl contmuc with us, though they are not in such numbers as on our first arrival in this neighbourhood. Friday 4. At eleven o~clock we were visited by our neighbour the Fia, or chief Comowool, who is also called Coone, and six Clatsops. Besides roots, and be •·ries, they brought for sale three dogs and some fresh blubber. Ilav .. ing been so long accustomed to live on the flesh of dogs, the greater part ofus have acquh·ed a fondness for a, and o~r original a. version for it is overeomt·, by reflecting that wlnlc we subsisted on that food we were fatter, stronget·, and in general enjoyed better health than at any lleriod since leaving the buffaloe country eastward of the mountains. The blubber, which is esteemed by the Imlians an excellent food, has been obtained, they tell us, from their neighbours the Kil .. .t'amucks, a nation who live on the seacoast to the southeast, and near one nf whose villages a wltale had recently been thrown and foun(lcred. Th1·ee of the hunters who had been 10.5 tlespatc.hcd on the 28th, retut'ned about daJ•k; they had been fi ft een miles up the river to the east of' us, which falls into 1\leriwcthet··s l.>aJ, and had hunted a considerable distance to t he rast; but they had not been able to kill more than a ·inglc doer, and a. l'ew fowls, scarcely sufficient for the it• sub-ist. ence; an inciclcnt which teaches us the necessity of keep .. ing- out sevm·al partjcs of hunte~·s, in ot·der to procm·c a sup~ illy against any exigency. Sat UJ·day '.i•. Comowool le ft us this moJ'uing with his }Jarty, highly plt•ased with a JWescnt of an old 1mia· of 5atin breeches. 'rite hunte rs were all sent in differ ent dircctious, and we are now bt•comiug uHn· •~ anxious fur thch• success !,incc our store of' wappatoo is a ll exhaus ted. Sunday 5. 'f'wo ol' the fh'c men who hatl been tl es pah~ h cd to make salt r·ctm·uctl. 1.'1wy had carefully examined the eoast, but it was not till the fifth day ancr thc ia· de11arturc tlsat th<'y discover ed a (~ on vc nient situa tion for the it· manuraetul'fl. At leng th they f'c>rmcd an estahli !,hment abou t Jif, t r en miles soul h west of the fort, near some scatt ca·cd honse.s of the Clatsop and K illamuek nat ion, whc1·e. thcy c n·dc~tl a. cornf'o1'tau1c camp, ancl had killed a stock of pro\' isions. l'hc Indians hacl h·ca.ted thc.,•m vct·y kindly, and made them a. pt·escnt of the uluhbm· or the whale, some of w hieh the men bt·ou~_;ht home. It was white a nd not tm1ikc the fat of }WI·k , thongh of a coal'ser ancl mot•c spongy tcxtua·e, and on being cooked was found to l.le tender a ncl pala table, and in fla· vour resembling the beaver. The men also lwoun·ht with them a gallon of the sa lt. whi<'l1 was wl1itc, fine, and very good, but not so stronf; as the a·ock sal t common Lo the western parts of the U nited St af ('s. It proves to be a most agreea ble addition to our fool!, and as the sallma.ket·s can manufacture thr·ee ot· four quarts a day , we have a pr ospect of a very plentiful supply. rfhe ~l(lJlCUI'an<~C of C he whale seemed to be a matter of importance to a ll the ncighhouring Indians, and as we might be ahlc to fli'OCUI'C some of it for om·sel vf'~, or ai least pm·rhasc hlnbhc t• fl·om Ow VOL, II. ·p |