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Show ~to "lwm we Jeal'Ot notbin~, exeopt that the nation was lllOne· rons. Late in the evening we halted at the beginning of the bottom land, below Deet• island, after having made twenty n•iles. Along the low gt·ounds on the 1-i'n~r were the cottonwood, sweet-willow, the oak, ash, the broad-leafed ash, and the gt·owth resembling the beech; while the hills arc occuJlicd almost exc•lusivcly by different spcci 'S of ftr, anti the blal'k ahltw is common to the hills as wcJI as the low g•·otwds. During tho day we passed a numhct· of fishing camps, oa both sides or the river·, and were constantly attended u.v small }lat·ties or lhe Ski1loots, wlw behan·d in tho mo ·tor drJ'Iy manner, a ml l'1·om whom we put'chased as much Hsh andl'oots as we wanted on YCJ'Y modc•·atc tcl'ms. 'l'hc ni!;hf aontinucd as t.hc day had been, cold, wet, and di~agrccablc. Fr·iday, 28. " 'e left ou1· camp at au early hour, and by nine o'dook reachcll an old Indian villagtf on the left sitlc o1' Orrr island. Here we found a party of our men whom we Jaad sent on yesterday to hunt, aud who now rcturnetl aftcl' killing seven deer, in the course or the morning, out of up,,~ H·ds of a hundt•cd which they had seen. 'I'hcy were the common fallow dem~ with long tails, aml though very pool' arc better than the blacl{-tailed fallow deer of the coast, r,·om " 'hirh they differ matedatly. Soon aftet• OUl' arrhal the weather became fair, and we t.hct·efore immediately hauled the boats on shore, and having tlt·icd them IJy means of large :fires, }mt on the pitch. 'V e also took t.his opportunity or drJ>ing OUL' baggage; and as some of the hunters Jw(l not yet retm·ncd, it was deemed advisable to pass tbc night at ou1 present camp. This island, which has received from the Indians the appropt'ia.t.e name of Elalah, or Deer island, is SUI'l'ounded on the water side by an abundant growlh of cotton-wood, ash, and willow, while the interior consists chiefly Of prairies intcrS}lCl'SCt) with pom]s. ri'hese affot•cl refuge to t;L·eat nurniJer·s or geese, dueks, lm·gc swan, sand· hill crane•, a few canvass-backed ducks, and I>articularly Up tile J~lis.(ww·t . 1he tluel~.inmallal•tl, the most al.nmdanf of all. 'l'hrrc areal· . o hn'at numlJCJ'S or snakes l'CSClllhliug our baJ'ten;nal .. c!) in appearance, and like them not poisonous. Out· !tuntet·~ brought in three deet·. a. goose, some tlucl"..s, an eagle, and a tygea·-cat, hut such is the cxtr·eme vor·acily or lhe vultut·es, that they had devoured in the space or a few lloul's, four oi' the deer killed this morning; aml one or our m<"n dcchu·ed, that they ha.tl lJcsidcs dragged a large huck aiJout thi1·ty yards, skinned H, and hrokc the hack-bone. \Ve we•·c Yisited during the day by a large canoe with ten Indians of the Quathla1wtlc nation, who reside about scvctHccn mileli alwve u5. 'Ve had advanced only five mih·s to-day. Saturday, 29. At an early hour we pt'ul•ccdcd along the side or Deer island, and halted for breakfast at the uppel' end of it, which is properly the eommcuccmeut of the gr·cat Columbian valley. 'Vc w~··e hrre joined by three JllCil or the 'l'owahnahiook nation, with whom we p•·occedcd, till af the dishuu:e of fourteen miles r.·om om· camp of last even ing we reached a la•·gc inlet or at·m of the l'i\'er, about tlu·cti hundr·cd yat·ds wide, up which. they went to thch· villages. A sho1·t distance aho"e this inlet a consitlet·a.hlc river cmp· ties itself fa·om the north side of the Columbia. Its name is Chawalma.hiooks. It is about one hundred and fifty yard'i witle, and at present. discharges a large body of water .• though t.he Indians assm'c us that at a short distance above .its mouth, the navigation is obsll'udcd by falls aml rapid9. l'hrce miles beyond the inlet is an isJa.ntl uca1· lhc north ~horc or the l'ivet·, bchiud the lower end of which is a village of Quathlapotles, where we landed, ahout three o'clocl\. The village consists of fourteen lat·ge wooden houses. 'l'he I•eoplc themselves received us ver·y kindly, and voluulat·ily SJn•ead IJef'ore us wappatoo aml anchovies, IJut as soon as we lmd ·finished enjoying this hospitality, if H desct·ves that name, they hegan to ask us for presents. 'J'Iary were, how<: vct·, perfectly satisfied with the small articles wuich we <listl'iLntte\l ~w<·m·diu~ to cu,tom, and ettually pl(.~ase«1 with |