November 16th. Satturdey 1805.
a fine morning cool the latter part of the night, I had all
our articles of every discription examined, and found much wet,
had all put out & dried. The 5 Indians Thieves left me. I
took a meridean altd. with Sextt. 50° – 36′ – 15 the shakeing
emige below. I sent out several hunters some to kill fowl
others to hunt deer or Elk. The Sea is fomeing and looks
truly dismal to day, from the wind which blew to day from the
S.W. an Indian canoe passed down to day, loaded with roots
&c. Three Indians came up from below I gave them smoke
but allowed them no kind of Priveleges whatever, they camped
with the 4 which came down yesterday, near us, The evening
provd cloudy & I could make no luner observations. one man
sick with a violent cold cought by lying in his wet clothes,
several nights. Course from Stormey point to Cape Disapointment
is [blank space in MS.] miles, passed a small creek and
an old village at 2 miles on the Stard. Side a small creek at I
mile we Encamped just above a Point in a Deep bay to the
Stard Side into which falls 2 small rivers Std. Grat maney
Indians liveing on the Bay & those two rivers, the lower
End of a large Island in the mouth of the Columbia opsd. to
us, we see Islands at some distance from Land S.W. the
Countrey on the Stard. Side high broken & thickly timbered,
that on the Lard at some distance from Point Adms high and
mountains on a Pinecal of which is snow. at this time. near
the Point is Low bottom land.
our hunters and fowlers killed 2 Deer 1 Crane & 2 ducks,
my Servt york killed 2 Geese & 8 white, black and Speckle
Brants, The white Brant with part of their wings black is much
the largest, the black brant is verry small, a little larger than
a large duck the deer pore but large
