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Show 212 om· pul'ehasin~ some wappatoo, t welvc dogs aml two caottcr skin!'. 'Ve also have to the (•hief a small medal, which }H~. however, soon transfcl'l' (l to his wife. Aftca· 1·emainin~; some timo we embarked, and eoa.stin~ along this i land, whi<•h after the nation we called (J_uathlapotlo island, cnmunpcd fot• this night in a small})I'H.ii·ie on tl~e north side of tlar (.;o]umhia, having made by estimate nineteen miles. 'I'ho rive a· is rising fast. 1 n the eoursl' of the da.y we saw groat numbct·s of geese, ducks, mullal'ge and small swans, wllicb last r.re vet·y abundant in the ponds where the wappatoo ~rows, as they feed much on that a·oot. 'Ve also o!Jservcd thC" ct'('Stcd kin~-Hshcr, and the hu·ge aml small bhwkbi1·tl: "'nd this evening heard, without seeing, the large Jwoting owl. The fl·ogs, which we have not foun<l in tho wetmat·shcs neat• the enh·unee of the Columbia, arc now cr•oaking in tho swamps ami marshes with JH'Cciscly the sa.mc note common jn the United States. The gartct•snakos <tppmu· in vast quantities, anti are scaUcred through the prait·ics in hu'gc bundles of forty ot• firty entwined round each other: among C he moss on the roeks we obsern·d a species of small wild onions g1·owing so closely together as to form a. pc1'fcct turf, an<l t•qual in Jlavoul' to the ~hin'!.i of out· gar·drn , whiell they rescm!Jlc in appearance also. Sunday, so. Soon aftc1· our departure we were met hy three Clanaminamums, one of whom we l'ecogniscd as OUI' companion yestm·da.y. lie lli'Csscd us vc1·y much to visit his countrymen on the inlet., but we had no time to make the circuit, and parted. 'Vc pt·ocecdcd far l.wfm·e a party of Claxtars, and Cathlacumups, llas ·ed us in two canoes, on 1hcit· way down the rive•·; and soon after we wcr·c met by sc,·er•al other eonoes, filled with pcl'sons of difnwcnt ti·i!Jcs on each side of the rive1·. 'Vc passed, also, several iisl1ing camps, on Wa]J]mtoo island, anti then haltcll few breakfast on 'he north side of the ri vcr·, neat· our camp ot' the 4& h of N uvcml>er. llcL'~ we were visited by several canv ·s f1·om two villages on 'Vapp~too islqud; the first, abou( U11 the Jllissom·i. Z13 two miles above us, is callccl Clahnaquah, the other a mile above them, has the name or Multnomah. After lai;;gling much in the manner of those on the seacoast, these lnc.lia. ns gave us a sturg<.·on with ~ome wappatoo and pashcquaw in t'IXChangc for small fishhooks. As we pt·oce ·tlc-cl we WCI'C joined by olher Inclians, and on eomin:" opposite to the elahnaquah. village, we were shown another village about two miles ft·om the river on the northeast siclc, mul behind a pond running parallel with it. IT ere they saitl the tribe <lallcd Shotos t·rsidcd. About four o'clock the ]nc.lians all left us. Their chid' object in accompanying us appeared to be to gratify curiosity; but though they hehavccl in the most fl'icndly mannet·, most of them were Jll'e}l<u·cd with their instruments of war. About sunset we reached a beautiful prair•ie, Ollposite the middle of what we laad called Image-canoe island, and having nmdt.~ twenty-tha·cc miles, encamprcl i'ot• the night. In the }H':tia·ic is a. hu·ge IlOnd or lal<.e, and an open grove of oak bot·dct·s the hack part. Thcr'e are many deer and elk in the ueighhourhood, but they aro vet·y shy, and the annual fern which is now abundant and dry, make such a rustling as the hunters }J~ss tlu·ough it, that they could not come wilhin •·c:.-lch or the game, and we obtaiued nothing but a. siuglc duck. 1\'londay 31. 'Vc set out very eal'ly, and at eight o'clocl~ landed on the north side of tlae rivet• au(l breakfasted. DiJ• cctly op1wsih~ is a hu·gc wooden house, belonging to the Shahala nation, the inhabitants or which ca.mc ovct· to sec us. 'Ve had observed in descending the rivet· last year, that there were at the same I,lacc, t wcmf y-four other houses built of wootl aml covered with straw, all or which at·e now desh·oycd: on inquit·y the Jndians infoa·merl us, that theh• •·elations whom we saw Jast fall, usually visit them at that season fot• the pm'Jlosc or hunting deer and elk, and collecting wnptJatoo, but. that they laad lately retm·ncd to tllCil' pel'mancnt residence at toe ltilpids, we ]H·csurnc in order to Jll'qmre for tho salmon season, as that fish will soon IJrgin |