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Show us, came to visit u., and hrhavcd themselves very ]n·oprrly, except t11at w~ were obligrd to tut·n one of them ft·om t]1e camp for stealing a piece of lead. Every thing was now ready for our departure. hut in the morning, Tuesday 8, the 'vind blew with ga·cat vjol<•ncc, ami we were obligNl to unload our boats, which we1·e soon aftir :filled with wat~r. The same cause preventc(l out· sctt inr• )'! out to-day; we therefot·e despateh<·d several hunters rouml the neighbourhoml, but in the evening they came back with nothing but a duck. 'l..,hcy had, however, seen some of flte black-tailed, jumping, or fallow deer, I ike those about fort Clatsop, which arc scarce near thiti l>lacc, where the common long-tailed fallow deer arc most abundant. 'l'hey hatl also observed two black bcat·s, the only ldntl that we have tlisco,'crcd in t.l1is quarter. A party of six Indians encam11· c.d at some distance, and late at night the sentinel ~topped one of the men, an old man who was creeping into camp in order to pilfer: he contented himself with ft·i~htcning the Indian, ancl then giving him a few stt·ipes with a switch, turned the fellow out, and he soon afterwards left the ])lae<~ 'vith all his lmrty. Wednesday, 9. rrhc wincl having modcl'atetl, we rclo:tdcd the canoes, and set out by seven o'dock. " 'e stopped to take up two hunters who had left us ycst<•J•tlay, hut WCI'e unsuccessful in the chaac, and then proceedc:l to the WahclclJah village, situated on the north side oi tho river, about a mile below Beacon t~ock. Dm·ing the whole of the route l't·om our camp, we passed along umler high, steep, and a·ocky sides of the mountains, which now cJ.osc on each side of the river, forminO' stupendous precipices, coYercd with the lil' and white cet.lar. Down these heights frequently descend the most beautiful cascades, one of wl1ich, a large crcol\, throws itself over a I>er]lendiculal' rock tl11'ec hundJ·ed feeL above the wa.tet·, while other smaller stl'eams precipitate themselves from a still gt·eatct• eJevation~ and evapol'atin~ ' ... 211 jn a mi5t, again collect and form a second cascade before they reach the bottom of tltc rocks. ''e stOJllled to breakfast at this villaf;C· 'Vc here found tho tomahawk which. had been stolen f1·om us uu the fom·th oflast.l: ovcrnher: they assured us they had bought it of the Indians below; but as the latter had already inl'ot·rncd us that the 'Vahelellahs had uch an article, which they had stolen, we made no diffieult.y al.wut retaking om· property. 'l'his village appears to be tho wintering station ol' the 'Yahclt'llah'l an(l Clahclellahs, two tl'ibes of the Shah ala nation. The greater part of t.lut fl1·st tl·ioo have lately rcmoYcd to the falls of ilJe 1\fultnomah, and the second llave cstabli!Shcd themselves a few miles highCI' up the <Jolumbia, Op}lO!olite the lower point of' ll1·ant island, where they take salmon, that being the commencement of the rapids. 'l'hey arc now in the act of rclnoving, and cal'l'ying off with them, not only tbe furniture aml cflccts, but the bark and most of the hoards of their houses. In this way nine have been lately removed. 'l'herc ~we still fourteen standing, and in the rear of the village arc the ta·aces of ten or twelve others of more ancient t.latc. 'rhcsc houses at·e either sunk in the ground or on a level "ith the sut·facc, an<l arc generally built of boards and co· vcred with cedar bark. In the single houses there is gene· rally a division ncar the door, which is in the end; or in case the house be double, opens on the narrow passage between the two. Like those we lmd sern below at the Ncercho· kioo triiJe, the women wear longer and larger robes than their neighbours the Mnltnomahs, and snS{)end various or~ naments from the cartilage of the nose: the hair is, bow· ever, ""orn in the same sort ofbrai«l, falling over each car, and the truss is universal fa·om the 'Vappatoo island to Lewis's rive•·· 'rho men also form theh· hair into two queues by means or ottet• skin thongs, which fall ovet.. the cars so as to give that cxtra01·dinary 'vidtb to the face which is here considerctl so ornamental. These people seemed very 11nfriemlly, amt our numhers alone seemctl to secure m; from |