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[Clark, first draft:]

October 28th Monday 1805

a windey morning loaded our canoes and set out at 9 oClock.
A M. 3 canoes came down from the village above & 2 from
that below. in one of those canoes a Indian wore his hair cued
[queued], and had on a round hat. Wind from West

Course Distance

     

N. 50°. W.	2	miles [to a] cove in a Lard. bend Clift of rocks on each side of 90 feet high, fiew pine
N. 10° W.	2	miles to an Indian village of the Cbee-luck-it-tee-quar nation of 8 houses in the form of those above, passed the mouth of a small creek
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Those Indians have a musket & sword, and several Brass
Tea kittles which they appear to be verry fond of We purchased
of those people five small dogs, and some Dried beries
& white bread of roots, the wind rose and we were obliged to
lie by about 1 mile below on the Lard. Side

North 1 mile to a rock Island on the Stard. Side. we had
not landed long be[fo]r an Indian canoe came from below with
3 Indians in it. those Indians make verry nice canoes of Pine.
Thin with aperns & carve on the head imitation of animals &
other heads; The Indians above sacrifice the property of the
Deceased towit horses, canoes, bolds [bowls] Basquets of which
they make great use to hold water boil their meet &c. &c. great

many Indians came down from the upper Village & sat with
us [and] smoked, rained all the evening & blew hard from
the West, encamped on the Lard Side opsd. an Rock in the
river Bad place

October 28th. Monday 1805

A cool windey morning we loaded our canoes and Set out
at 9 oClock, a. m. as we were about to set out 3 canoes from
above and 2 from below came to view us in one of those
canoes I observed an Indian with round hat Jacket & wore his
hair cued [he said he got them from Indians below the great rapid
who bought them from the whites] we proceeded on river inclosed
on each Side in high clifts of about 90 feet of loose
dark Coloured rocks at four miles we landed at a Village of
8 houses on the Stard. Side under some rugid rocks, Those
people call themselves Chil-luckit-te-quaw,[21] live in houses similar
to those described, Speake somewhat different language with
maney words the Same & understand those in their neighbourhood
Capt. Lewis took a vocabilary of this Language I entered
one of the houses in which I saw a British musket, a
cutlash and Several brass Tea kittles of which they appeared
verry fond Saw them boiling fish in baskets with Stones, I
also Saw [badly executed] figures of animals & men cut &
painted on boards in one Side of the house which they appeared
to prize, but for what purpose I will not venter to say,
here we purchased five Small Dogs, Some dried buries, & white
bread made of roots, the wind rose and we were obliged to
lie by all day at 1 mile below on the Lard. Side. we had not
been long on Shore before a Canoe came up with a man woman
& 2 children, who had a fiew roots to Sell, Soon after maney
others joined them from above, The wind which is the cause
of our delay, does not retard the motions of those people at all,
as their canoes are calculated to ride the highest waves, they
are built of white cedar or Pine verry light wide in the middle
and tapers at each end, with aperns, and heads of animals

carved on the bow, which is generally raised. Those people
make great use of Canoes, both for transpo[r]tation and fishing,
they also [make] use of bowls & baskets made of grass & [bark]
Splits to hold water and boil their fish & meat. maney of the
nativs of the last Village come down [to] Sit and Smoke with
us, wind blew hard accompanied with rain all the evening, our
Situation not a verry good one for an encampment, but such
as it is we are obliged to put up with, the harbor is a Safe one,
we encamped on the Sand, wet and disagreeable one Deer
killed this evening, and another wounded near our Camp.