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Show 118 Letvi.o:; mul Clm·lce·s Expctlition up the Columbia, o•· m·oss over thr~ugh t.he coun~ry of th~ Clatsops. This trade, however, 1s ohvJOusly little mote than o. loose and ir1·cgular barter, on a vc•·y small scale; fot· the materials for commerce are so extremely scanty and precarious. that the stranding of a whale was an important ,10nnnercial incident, which intc•·csted all the adjoining (tOuntry. The JGllamueks have little }leculiar, eithcl' in cllaracter or manners, and resemble, in almost every particular, tho Clatsops and Chinnooks. Adjoining tho Killamucks, and in a dil•cction S. G. E. are the Lueldons, a small tribe inhabiting the seacoa t. They speak the same language as the Killamucks, hut do not belong to the same nation. The same observation applies to the Kahunkle nation, their immediate ncighbom·s, who arc supposed to consist of about fom· humlrecl souls. 'l'he Lickawis, a still more numm·ous nation, who have a large town of cjght hundred souls. 'I'he Youkone nation, who live in very large houses, and number seven hundred souls. '.l'he N eekcto nation, of the same number or persons. rrhc Ulscah nation, a small town of one hundred and lif .. ty souls. The Youitts, a trihe who live in a small town, contajning not more than one hnmh·ed and fifty souls. 'l'he Shiastueklc nation, who have a large town of nino hundred souls. 'n10 Killawats nation of five hunda·ctl souls collected into one larsc town. 'Vith this last nation ends the language or the Killamucks: and tho coast, which then tums towards the southwest, is occupied by nations whose languages vary ft•om that of the Killamucks, and fi'Oill each other. or these, the first iu or~''l' are, 'l"hc (.;ookoooose, a la•·ge nation of one thousand five hundred souls, inha.hiting the shore of the Pacific and tho nciglllJouring m!ltmtains. 'Ve have seen scV<wal of this • U1> tlte Jlissom·i. 119 nation wl10 were taken prjsoners by the Clatsops and Killamucks. Their comple ion wus much fairer than that of the Indians nrar ihe mouth of the Columbia, and their heads were not fla.ttcnc<l. Next to these arc, 'fhc ShaJalahs, of whom we know nothing, except their numbers, whid1 arc computed at twelve bun<lt·ed souls. rrhcn follow, 'fhc Lucl,;.asos, of ahont the same number, and 'l'he Hannakabh, whom we estimate at six hundred 'iOUls. 'fhis is the extent of the lndianinfot•mation,andju<lging, <ts we can do, '"ith eonsidcral>lc accu•·acy f1·om the number Qi' sleeps, or days journey, the distance which these tribes occupy along the coast, may be estimated at three hundrc«! and sixty miles. On the not•th of the Columbia, we have already seen the Chinnooks, of four hundreu souls, along the shores of Ha .. ley's bay, aml the low grouu<ls on Chinnook river. 'l'bcir nr-arcst neighbom·s to the nortl10ast are 'l'hc .Killaxthokle, a small nation on the coast, of not more than eight houses, and a hundred souls. 'l,o these succeed 'I'hc Chilts, who reside above Point Lewis, and who are estimated at seven hundl·cd souls, and thirty-eight. houses. Or this nation, we saw, transiently, a few among tl1e Chinnooks, from whom they did not appear to differ. Beyond the Chilts we have seen none of the northwest Indians, and all that we learnt, consisted of an enumeration of their names and numbers. The nations next to the Cltilts, are The Clamoitomish, of twelve houses, and two hundred and sixty souls. The Potoasl.tecs, ot' ten houses, and two hundred son b . 'l,llC Pailsk, of ten houses, and two bund1·ed souls. 'fhe Quinults, of six tv houses, and one thousand soub. The Chilla~eroJ, of ej~l1t hot :os, and one hun•lt'!.!d an<l fiJ-ty souls • |