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Show A HUlo bcfol'e sunset, the Chimnapoos, amountiug t,; one Jaurult·ctl men, and a few women, came to the village, and joining the'" ollawollahs. who were about the same numlu. ·•· of men, formed thcmsdvcs in aeirele round oureamp, and naitt~d very patic'ntly till our men were disposed to daner, "hieh they did for about an }JOur, to the tnne of the ,·iolin. 'l'hey then rrquc:sicd to sre the Indians f1ancc. " 'ith thi thry readily complicu, and 1l1C whole assemblage, -amounting, " 'ilh the wonwn ancl thilda·cn or the viJiagc, to several hunch·r(l- stood up, and sang aml dance(] at the nnw lime. 'J'he exercise was not, inilecd, vrry vioh•nt 1101 Ycry g•·an·ful. fot• the grea.t•' r pa1·t of tl1t~m "t•rc l'ormcd in· (o a l:!Oliu column, round a kind of hollow squa.·c, stood on {lte same plaoo, and merCl) jumped up al in tervals, to Jwc1~ time to the music. Some. howrver·. of the more active w~U't'iors, entered the square, and dan<'{'d round it side\\'ise, a td SOlll<' or OUr lUfll ,joined in the ua.n<•e, to th<' g'l'('at satisfaction of I he Indians. The dance continued till ten o'clock. The next morning, Tuesday 29. Y dlcpt SU}Jpliec.lns with two canoes in whjch "e cr·osscd with all our bag~age by elcv{'n o•cJocl\. but the wrsrs having stt·ayctl to sonw distance, we cou]d not coHt'Ct them in time to reach any fit place to encamp if we began our journey, as night•would overtake us before we came to water. 'V' therefore thought it athiscable t.o enl'.amp about a mile· from the Columbia. on the mouth of the 'Vollawollab river. ri'his is a handsome sta·c·am, about fifty yards wide, and four and a half feet in depth: its waters. which are clear. •·oil m cr a bed com1•osed princi1)ally of gravel, intcJ·mixed with sume sand and mud, and though the bnnl\.s arc low they do uot seem to be overflowed. It empties into the tolumuiu, about twelve ot• Ht'tecn miles ftom the entrance of Luwis's ~·ivel', and just above a range of high hills cr·ossing the Columbih.. lls sources, like luose of tho Towahnahiooks, La· page~ Youms.tolam, and \Vollawollah, come, as the Jn•\ian~ jnfol'm Ul', from the north r-; id" of a l'H'.l~<'· of mountains whiCJl U11 lhe JJiissmtl'i. " 0 sec to tuc <'R.St and ~outlu•ast, anll which. <·ommcnl'in;; to the !iOutll of mount JJood, strt~tch in a. not·Uu~as t et·n dit·(•ct iou to the ncighuourhood ol'a southet•n ln·anch ofLtnvis's l'ivcl', at !,Orne di.,tance fl'Olll the Rod.-y mountain . Two twind · pnl lH"ancllt's however ol' the '('uwahnahiooks t:1kc tht>ia· t'i!:le in mount .Jcfl'crson and mount Hood, which in fact appent' to Mcp:u·atc the watcl'S of the ~lultnomah and Columbia. They arc now ahont flixty-fi ''c or sovt'nty miles fl·om. 1 his place, and although covc•·cd with snow. do not St'Cm high. 'fo the south or these mountains the Indian })l'isoncr says thcx•c is a river, running towards the n01·thwcst, as large a!:! the Columbia at this place, which is neal'ly a mile. Thi~ account ma.y be exaggcr·atcd, hut it set·vcs to show that the Multnomah must be a vety la.rgc a·iv•·a·, amhhat with the a s · sistance of a southeastern bt·ant'll of Ltnvis'8 tivel', passing I'ountl the eastern extremity of that chain of mountain!:! iu whi<•h mounts Hood and Jdlel·son arc so <WilSllicuous, water~ t.he vast tract of cuuntl') to tht' sou~ h. till its remote sourr es approach those of the Missoul'i and Uio del N ol'<lc. Nca.t• ou•· c~unp is a fish-weir, foL·mctl of two curtains of small willow switches, matted togethct• with wyth~s of the same plant, and extending across the rivcl' in two J>aralld lin~s, six feet asunder. 'rhc!1c arc sut>portc.·tl by sever al llaa·ools of poles, in the manncrah·tady dc~CJ·ibcd, as in us· among tho Shoshoucrs, and arc either rolled up oa· lt.~t down at pl~asurc fot• a few feet, so as cithca· to suffc1· the fish to pass ot· ucHtin them. A seine of lifteen Ol' ei<)'hh•t•n l'l'ct inlen,...th i .3 ~ ,.., tlum (h·aggcd <lown the rivet· l>y two persons, aud the bottom draWJa up against the cut•tain of willows. They also ClllJ)lo · a smaller seine like a scooping net, one side or which i~ cou fined to a scmicil'culat· bow five fc{~t long, and hall' the :;i~c of a man's a1•m, and the other sitlc is h«.1ltl by a stt·ou•" rope. which being tied at both ends to the bow, fo1·ms the t'IHn·d tn tltc scmicit·clc. This is used JJy one JlN'son. lmt the only fish Whi(•)a thry can take at this time is a n&Ullt\t Of' ft·om. four t8 iivf~ Jloumls in wd;.;-ht. and tid~ is tiH• (•hit>f ·Hh i•t · |