November 6th. Saturday 1805
Cool the latter part of the last night this morning clear and
butifull; I had all our articles of every discription examined
and put out to Dry. The 5 Chin nooks left us I took a
meridenal altitude with the Sextt. 50°. 35'. 15. which gave for
Lattitude 46°. 19'. 11"=1/10 North. I sent out Several hunters
and fowlers in pursute [of] Elk, Deer, or fowls of any kind.
wind hard from the S. W. the Waves high & look dismal
indeed breaking with great fury on our beech an Indian canoe
pass down to day loaded with Wap-pa-ta- roots; Several Indians
came up to day from below, I gave them Smoke but allowed
them no kind of privilage whatever in the camp, they with
the 4 which came down yesterday encamped a Short distance
from us. The evening proved cloudy and I could not take
any Luner observations. One man Sick with a violent cold,
caught by laying in his wet leather clothes for maney nights
past.
The Countrey on the Stard. Side above Haleys Bay is high
broken and thickley timbered on the Lard. Side from Point
Adams the countrey appears low for 15 or 20 miles back to
the mountains, a pinical of which now is covered with Snow or
hail, as the Opposit [shore] is too far distant to be distinguished
well, I shall not attempt to describe any thing on that
side at present. our hunters and fowlers killed 2 Deer 1 Crain
& 2 Ducks, and my man York killed 2 geese and 8 Brant, 3
of them white with a part of their wings black and much larger
than the Grey brant which is a sise larger than a Duck.[37]
