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Show 232 liewi.'> aml Clt.u·ke's EX]Mdilion ill tt·catmcnL 'Vhilc we were at ha·eakfa.st tho grand chief of the CJaillucldttcquaws arrived, with two inl'ca·ior chief~, ami scvet•al men and women of his uat ion. They were rctm ·ning home, after trading in the Columbian valley, and were loaded with wappatoo aml th·icd anchovies, whir.h, with some beads. they had obtained in exchange fo1· chappclcll, beat·-ga·ass and oCher small articlr~. As these people had been very l<ind to us as we drsccndetl the •·iver, we t.~udcavoured to repay them by eve1·y att<~ntion in ou1· power·. After put·elmsing, with much dillicu1ty. a few dogs and son)l" wappatoo ft·om the 'Yahclcl1ahs. we left them at two o·clock, and passing under tiH· Ueacon t•o<·k, t•<>aehetl in two hourfi the Clahclellah vjllage. This Ueacon rock, which we now observed more accnrakly than as we dcseend,•d, stands ou the north sift(~ arc he rivet·. insulated fa·om the hilli. rrtae nol'thtwn sid t~ has a pat·tial growth or fit· ot· 11inc. rro the south it a·isr in an unbt·okcn pr·ccipio~ to the height ol' seven hundn~d feet, wh •t·e it trl'miuates in a shal'p voint, uml may he se<'n at the distance ol' twenty miles below. This t•ock may be consid ·red as the <~omu1cnccmcnt of tidc-watct ·, though tlu~ influence of the tide is pcrcelltiiJlc here in autumn only, at 'vhich time tho wat<·a· is low. " 'hat the precise diffea·enr.c at those seasons is, we cannot determine; but on examining a l'Ock wllith we lat(•ly passc<l, ancl comparing its appearance now with that which we obsct·vcd last November, we judge the flood or this SJ>t'ing to be twelve feet above the height oft he river at that time. Ft·om llracwn rock as low as the mar hy islands, the gcnea·al width of the rivet· is ft·om one to two miles, though in many l'Jaces it is still greater. On laauling at tho Clahclcllah!:! we found them busy in ct·ccting thci1· huts, whiclt seem to be of a tempot• ary ldnd only, so that most 1n·obably they do uot t•emaia longer than the salmon season. Like their counh·ymeu_, whom we had just left, these lH!Ople were sulky and iJl,JlUmoured, and so much on the alrrt to Jlill'er, that we wel'c obliged to liecp tl1<~m at a distance fl•om out· baggage. .A-F llll' lar~e canoc·s could not ascend the rapids on the uorth '.!ide, we t>asscd to the opposite shot'l', and entered the nar~ l'OW clnumcl wlait~h sqmt·atc it from fl •·ant island. Tho weatltcl' was vct·y cold a.n1l t·a.iny, and the wind so high, that we wcr·e afa·aitl to attempt the r·a1>ids this even in~;, aucl there~ fua·c, finding a. safe harhom·, we encamped for the night. The wood iu this rwighboul'laotHI has lately been on lit•c, and the firs have di !i(•.hat·ged eonsidet·alJle quantities of pitch, which we collected for some of oua· llnat • \Vc saw to-day !:iome tm·kt•y-buzzard ·, "hieh ~u·e the Ji.l'st we haYe obscncd on this side ol' the Uo<..',ky mountains. 'l'hua·sday, 10. Ea.l'ly in the moruing we dt·opped dowu (he ch::umd to the }OWCL' end of fia•aut h,JancJ, n.nd then dreW OUL' boats U{l the l'aJ)iCJ. .At the distall 'C of a (}Harter of a mile we ct•otsscd ovct· to a village of Clahclellahs, consisting of Hix houses, on the opposite sillo. 'nac a·ivet· is here about fout· hunth·cd )'at'tls wide, aull the cuneot so rapid, that althout; h we cmployt•tlfive oat·s fol' eaeh canoe. we were hot·uc down a considerable distance. \\'hilt! we were &cl.t bl'eakf~tst, one of the Jmlians offel·etlHs two shccp-sking foa· sale, one, which was tlw !ikin .,{'a full grown sheep, was as latgo as tlmt ol' a common deer: the secon•l was smallt·r, and Chc .l'il"in Of the head, With the horns t·enmiuiug, WllS maUC into a oap, and hi~hly pri~ed as an ol·mtmcut hy the ownct·. Jle howcvca· sohl the (mp to us ftu· a knift•, {lltd the rest of th.., o;kin for those of two elk; but as they ouscrved our anxiety 'to pul·chasc the othet· skin, they would uot ace •pt the same vrice fot• it, and ns we hoped to IH'OCUl'e JliOl'C iu the neighhourltootl, we ditluot ull'cr n gi·cater. 'l'h.c horus of the nu.imal wel'e lJlack, smooth, und erect, and they rise f1·om the middle of the foa·ehcad, a little ltbovc the eyes, in a cylindl'ical fol'm, to the height of fouL' inches, where they are pointed. 'l'he. ClaheJellahs informed us that the sheep Ul'Cj Ycry al.nmdaut on the hejghts, and among the clifrs of the :uljacont IIHHwtains; and that these hvQ had been lately kil· )t·d nut of a ht't·d of thh·ty-slx, at no gl'e~1t dis,tut~V.@ f1·om the 'OTJ. H. 11 h |