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Show l'ha (lari.y e»uamp amongst the Chopunnish, and receive turthc•· e~· uleuuc~ of their hospitality--thclndian mode of boiling bears-flesh-of gclcling hot·sestheir mode of decoying the deer within reach of th eir an·ows- character of the soil and climate in the Uocky mountuius-varicties of climate-chnra.:let· of the natiYcs-their dress and orn:uncnts- -modc of hm) ing the dc:-ul- -tlir 'tl&rty Rdmini~tcr medical relief to the nativc~-onc of the nntivt-s r estored to the usc ofhis limbs by swcutinl), and the cm·ious process by which liCrspit'atiOtl was excited- another Jlt'oof of <..:hopunuish hospitality-success of thcit· sweating {)l'e~criptio n on tltc [ndian chicf-llcscription of tn horn~ d lizznrd, and a Yoriety of insects-the nttachm.::nt of the friends of a d) int lndian to o. tomnhawk which he had stolen from the p:u·ty, and '' hich they desired to but·y with the body--dcsniption of the riv r Torumanam:~h-the fudinns rrturn 1\Jl nmwer to n proposition made by the party. '.ftH'sday, 13. OuR medical visits occupied us till a fate ltom·. al'tea· which we collected our bo•·srs and JWO ceded for two miJ ·s in a sontlaeastc•·n direction. <' l'O ssing a ln·an<'h f l'om tlw t·ight, at the c.li~tancc of a milt.,. 'Vc then lul'IJccl ncal'ly not·th, and cros5ing an cxtc•nsivc Oj>cn IJottom, t~hout a mite and n half wide, rcnched the hanl of flu· Kooskoosk< ·e. IJ(•rc we ('Xpcctcd the canoe whi<·h they had pt'OJ1li sed; but a lthough a man had been dt•spatehcd with il at tho appointed time, he did not arl'ivc befurc sunset. 'Yc thcl'cfore encamped, with a numiJer of Indians who had followed us from the l'illage, and in the mor·ning. " '<·dncsday 14, after srmling out some huut.ers, trans] Wrtcd the lmggage IJy means of the canoe~ and then drove out• lwl'ses into the river, over which t hry swam without accident, although it is one hund1·cd and li rty ya•·ds wide, and 1 ht' Clll'J'Ctlt very rapid. 'Ve tbrn de!'itendcd the l'in•r about Lewis a1Ht Clurkc's Expetlitiou, &c. 281 half a tnih·. ami fol'mcd oul' c:.a.mp on the spot which the In~ tli:lns ha.(\ t•ct·ommtmdctl. It was about f01·ty l>aoos f1:om the ,·ivcl' and fo1·nH.'l'ly an Indian habitation; IJut notbmg rcnmin: t.l at present but a circle thir ty yards in diameter, sunk in the g1·ound about fout· feet, with a wall .round it of nearly thl'cC aucl a ltaH' feet in height. In tlus Jllace we depositt• d ou1• haggagc, a.nd t·omul its t•dges foJ•mell our tents of st.ieks and g1·ass. This situation is in many respects advantageous. It is an ..... xtensi\'c le~cl ho.Uom. tl~inly covt'rcd with long lt'al't..'d pine, with a rteh soil, atfol'dlllt; exccll~nt pastui'c, a nd s uJli•lil·d, as well a.B the high antl.lu·okeu l~•lls on the cast aml noa~llwa s t, with the best ganw ln the neJg1tbom ·hood· "hilc its ,·itinity to the t-i'vcr makes it convenient f'o1· ~he ~mlmun, \\ hic:h arc now <"Xlwc.tcd da ily. A s soon as we bat! encampl'd, Tunnaehmnootoolt a.uu Uohastil pilp, with nl>out tw('l ve of the it· nation, ca. me to tho oppo~ site sitlc aml brgan to siug, tit is h<!ing I he u~ual tol{Cll of friendship on simila.t· occasion:;. ' Vc sent the eanoc fot· t.hem, and the two chiefs came on·r with several of the party, among whom wca·c the two youni; men ''· 1 o l•atl ,,.ivcn us the l " o . two hor es in h<'half of the nation. After smolung some time, IlolJastilpilp presented to captain Lewis au elegant oot•ay ,..eldin1" which he had brought for the purpose, an<l <!t " t"J' I . f was pc1·fcctly satislicd at t•cceiving in t•ctut·n a handkcrc uc ' two hundred ha.lls, and fout• pounds of powder. 'l'hc lnmtc1·s killed some pheasants, two sq uil'rcls, and a male and a female bca.r , the fit·st of vd1ieb was !aq;e and fat, ami of' a bay colour; the sccont1 meugrc, grisly, and of ~mailer size. They were of tlte species common to tbc up · pet· paa·t of the 1\ii. sout·i, and 111ight well IJa Lt'rmcd the variegated b<~ar·, for they arc found occasionally of a lJlad,; oorisly IJ1·o wn or 1·etl coloua·. There is every reason to bc~ evc them to lJc of p1·eciscly the same species. 'I'hose of dir·fcrcnt colours at•c killed togcthcl', as in the case of these two, and a.s we found the white and bay associated togcthct· on the Missout'i; and some nearl~ white WC\'C scrn in t hi c; neigh - |