November 14th.. Thursday 1805
rained all the last night without intermition, and this morning.
wind blows verry hard, but our situation is Such that we
cannot tell from what point it comes. one of our canoes is
much broken by the waves dashing it against the rocks. 5 Indians
came up in a canoe, thro' the waves, which is verry high
and role with great fury. They made Signs to us that they
saw the 3 men we Sent down yesterday. only 3 of those Indians
landed, the other 2 which was women played off in the
waves, which induced me to Suspect that they had taken Something
from our men below, at this time one of the men Colter
returnd. by land and informed us that those Indians had taken
his Gigg & basket, I called to the Squars to land and give
back the gigg, which they would not doe untill a man ran with
a gun, as if he intended to Shute them when they landed, and
Colter got his gig & basket I then ordered those fellows off,
and they verry readily cleared out they are of the War-ci-a-cum
N.
Colter informed us that "it was but a Short distance from
where we lay around the point to a butifull Sand beech, which
continued for a long ways, that he had found a good harber in
the mouth of a creek near 2 Indian Lodges—that he had proceeded
in the canoe as far as he could for the waves, the other
two men Willard & Shannon had proceeded on down ["]
Capt. Lewis concluded to proceed on by land & find if possible
the white people the Indians say is below and examine if a
Bay is Situated near the mouth of this river as laid down by
Vancouver in which we expect, if there is white traders to find
them &c. at 3 oClock he Set out with 4 men Drewyer Jos.
& Ru. Fields & R. Frasure, in one of our large canoes and 5
men to set them around the point on the Sand beech. this
canoe returned nearly filled with water at Dark which it receved
by the waves dashing into it on its return, haveing landed Cap
t.
Lewis & his party Safe on the Sand beech. The rain continues
all day. all wet. The rain &c. which has continued without
a longer intermition than 2 hours at a time for ten days past
has distroy
d. the robes and rotted nearly one half of the fiew
clothes the party has, perticularley the leather clothes fortunately
for us we have no very cold weather as yet. and if we
have cold weather before we can kill & Dress Skins for clothing
the bulk of the party will Suffer verry much.
