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Show 116 Lewis and Cla J'kc' s ~xpcttitio u. back; and theil· ears, neck, aml wrists arc ornamented with blue beads. Another dccol'ation which is very highly prized, consists of figures made by puncturing the arms or Jegs; and on the arm of on~ of the squaws, we observed the name of J. nowman, executed in the same way. In language, habits, and in almost every other particular, they resemble the Clatsops, CathJamahs. and indeed all the people ncar the mouth of the Columbia. rrhcy, l10wcver, seem to be inferior to their ncighhoui'S in honesty as well as SJ>irit. No ill treatment or indignity, on Olll' part, seems to excite any feeling, except fear; not·, although better Ill'ovidcd than their neighbours with arms, have t.hey enterprise enough to usc them advantageously against the animals of the forest, nor oftcnsivcly against their neighbours; who owe their safety mor·e to the timidity than the forbc:wance of the Chinnooks. 'Ve had heard instances of pilfering whilst 've were amongst U1em, aml therefore had a general order, e:l'cluding t.ht·m ft'om ouL' encampment; so that. whenever an Indian wished to vi it. us, he began by calling out "No Chinnook." It may be 1wobahlc that Uris first. impression left n preJudiee against tllCm, since when we wrrc among the Clatsops, and other tl'iucs at t.hc mouth of the Columbia, the Indians had less Ollport.unit.y of stealing, if t.bcy wcr•c so disposed. 'l'ucstlay, ii·, we were cmJlloyNl in j~rking the meat or the elk, and searching for one of t.hc canoes which had been carried off by the tide last night. Having found it, we uow l1ad three of them dt·a.wn up out or reach of the water, ami the other secured by a strong cord, so as t.o be rcmly for any emergency. After many inquit'ics and much observation. we arc at length. enabled to obtain a connected ' 'icw or th~ nations. who l'esidc along the coast, on both sides of the Columbia. To the south, out· pcr'sonal o1Jscrvation has not extend* ell beyond the ](illamucks; but we obtained fl·om those who wer~ acquainic~l w~ih the scacQas~, q, l~st of the Iudian \ U11 t1re ~lissoru·i. ii'r tribes, in the order in which they succeed each other, to a considerable distance. The first nation to the south are the Clatsops, who reside on the southern side of the bay, and along the seacoast, on both sides of Point Adams. They are represented as the remains of a much larger nation; but about four years ago, a disorder, to whicl1 till then they wero strangers, but which seems, from tltcirdcscdption, to } 1ave been the small-pox, destroyed four chiefs, and several hundreds of the nation. These at·c deposited in canoes, a few miles below us on tlw bay, an'l the survivors do not. number more than fourteen houses, and about two hundred souls. Next to thrm along t.hc southeast coast., is a much larger nation, the Killamucl\s, who number fifty houses, and a thousand souls. 'rhcir first establishment are the four huts at the mouth of Ecola creek, thirty-five miles from Point Adams; and t.wo miles below arc a ft.~w more hut~; but the principal town is situated twenty miles lower, at the entrance of a creek, called Niclec, into t.hc bay, which we designate by the name ofKillamucks bay. Into the same bay empties a second errek, five miles further, whct·c is a KilJamuck village, called Kilhcl'hurst.; at. two miles a third creek, and a town called Kilhcrncr; and a.t the same distance a town called Chislznck, at the mouth or Killamuck river. 'rowcrquotton and Clmcktin. at·e the names of two ot.her towns, situated on creeks wllich mnpty into the bottom or the bay. tltc last of wlaich is seventy miles from Point Adams. 'l'hc Killamuck river is about. one hundred yards wich-, and vct·y rapid; but.l1~n'ing no pet·pcndi('u]arfall, js the gJ'eat avenue for trade. Thct·e arc two small villages of Killamucks cttled above its mouth, all(} the whole trading part of the tribe ascend it., till by a slwr·t.porfa~e, they carry thcit· canoes over to the Columbian valley, and descenll the Multnomah to " 'appatoo island. llorc the! purchase roots, which thry cat·•·y down the Chockalilum or Columbia; and, a.ftel' traincking with the tribes on its bank for the yarious articles whieh they requit'<', either return |