November 8th. Friday 1805
A cloudy morning Some rain, we did not Set out untill 9
oClock, haveing changed our Clothing. proceeded on close
under the Stard. Side, the hills high with steep assent, Shore
boald and rockey Several low Islands in a Deep bend or Bay
to the Lard. Side, river about 5 or 7 miles wide, three Indians
in a Canoe overtook us, with salmon to Sell, passed 2 old
villages on the Stard. Side and at 3 miles entered a nitch of
about 6 miles, wide and 5 miles deep with Several Creeks
makeing into the Stard. Hill, this nitch we found verry Shallow
water and call it the Shallow nitch, (Bay)[28]
we came too at the
I remains of an old village at the bottom of this nitch and dined,
here we Saw great numbers of fowl, Sent out 2 men and they
killed a Goose and two canves back Ducks here we found
great numbers of flees which we treated with the greatest caution
and distance; after Diner the Indians left us and we took the
advantage of a returning tide and proceeded on to the Second
point on the St
d. here we found the Swells or Waves so high
that we thought it imprudent to proceed; we landed unloaded
and drew up our Canoes.
[29]
Some rain all day at intervales, we
are all wet and disagreeable, as we have been for Several days
past, and our present Situation a verry disagreeable one in as
much, as we have not leavel land Sufficient for an encampment
and for our baggage to lie cleare of the tide, the High hills
jutting in so close and steep that we cannot retreat back, and
the water of the river too Salt to be used, added to this the
waves are increasing to Such a hight that we cannot move from
this place, in this Situation we are compelled to form our
camp between the hite of the Ebb and flood tides, and rase
our baggage on logs. We are not certain as yet if the white
people who trade with those people or from whome they precure
their goods are Stationary at the mouth, or visit this
quarter at stated times for the purpose of trafick &c. I believe
the latter to be the most probable conjecture. The Seas roled
and tossed the Canoes in such a manner this evening that
Several of our party were Sea sick.
