December 29th.. Sunday 1805.
rained last night as usial, this morning cloudy without
rain a hard wind from the S.E. the Inds. left us this morning
and returned to their village, after begging for maney things
which they did not secure as we could not spare them I gave
the Chief Canio a razor, sent out 3 men across the river to
hunt, all others employd putting up pickets Pete Crusat sick
with a violent cold My servent better. we are told by the
Indians that a whale has foundered on the Coast to the N.W.
and their nations is collecting fat of him. the wind is too high
for us to see it, Capt. Lewis is been in readiness 2 days to go
and collect some of the whale oyle the wind has proved too
high as yet for him to set out in safty In the evening a young
Chief 4 men and 2 womin of the War-ci-a-cum tribe came in
a large canoe with Wapto roots, Dressed Elk skins &c. to sell,
the Chief made me a present of about a half a bushel of those
roots we gave him a medal of a small size and a piece of red
ribin to tie around the top of his Hat which was made with a
double cone, the diameter of the upper about 3 Inches
the lower a about 1 foot We purchased about 1 ½
bushels of those roots for which we gave some few red beeds,
small pices of brass wire and old check those roots proved
greatfull to us as we are now liveing on spoiled Elk which
is extreamly disagreeable to the smel. as well as the taste.
I can plainly discover that a considerable exchange of property
is continually carried on between the Tribes and villages
of those people they all dress litely ware nothing below the
waste, a pice of fur abt. around the body, and a short robe
which composes the total of their dress, except a few split hats,
and beeds around ther necks wrists and anckles, and a few in
their ears. They are small and not handsom generally speaking
women perticularly.
The Chin-nook womin are lude and carry on sport publickly
the Clotsop and others appear deffident, and reserved.
A List of the Tribes near the mouth of the Columbia river
as given by the Indians, the Places they reside, the names of
the Tribes and principal Chiefs of each all of which speak the
same language[31]
1st.
Clot-sop Tribe in several small villages on the Sea Co[a]st
to the S.E. of the Mouth & on the S.E. bank of the Columbia
river—not noumerous
| 1st. |
Chief Con-ni â. Co-mo-wool |
| 2. |
d° Sha-no-ma |
| 3. |
d° War-ho-lott |
2nd.
Chin-nook Tribe reside opposit on the N.W. Side & in
small villages & single houses made of split boards on a creek
of Haleys bay, and on small lakes or ponds, at no great distance
from the river or bay. Tolerably noumerous—so said
| 1st |
Chief is Stock-home |
| 2d. |
d° Com-com-mo-ley |
| 3 |
d° Shil-lar-la-wit |
| 4 |
d° Nor-car-te |
| 5 |
d° Chin-ni-ni |
3rd.
Chiltch Tribe reside near the Sea Coast & North of the
Chin-nooks live in houses and is said to be noumerous Speak
same Language
| 1st. |
Chief Mar-lock-ke |
| 2d. |
d° Col-chote |
| 3rd |
do Ci-in-twar |
4th
Ca-la-mox Tribe reside on the Sea coast to the S.E. of
the Columbia River and on a Small river, and as I am informed
by the Clot-sops inhabit 10 Villages 6 of them on the
ocian & 4 on the Little river, Those Ca-la-mox are said not to
be noumerous Speake the Clotsop language
5th
Calt-har-mar Tribe reside in one village of large Houses
built of split boards and neetly made, on the S.E. Side of the
Columbia River, behind a Island in a Deep bend of the River
to the S. E. they are not noumerous, and live as the others
do on fish, black roots Lickuerish berries, and Wap-pe-to roots,
and is as low as those Wapeto roots grow, which is about 15
miles on a Direct line from the Sea.
| 1st. |
Chief Clax-ter |
{at war against the
Snake Inds. to the
S of the falls |
| 2d. |
d° Cul-te-ell |
|
| 3 |
do [blank space in MS.] at war |
|
6th
Clax-ter Nation This nation reside on [blank space in
MS] Side of the Columbia River in [blank space in MS.]
villages above about
[full line blank in MS.]
and are noumerous they latterly floged the Chinnooks, and
are a Dasterly Set
| 1st |
and great Chief Qui-oo |
7th
War-ci-a-cum Tribe reside on the N W. Side of the
Columbia in the great bend behind some Islands, this tribe is
not noumerous reside in 2 village[s] of Houses
The Chief Scum ar-qua-up
The flees are so noumerous in this countrey and difficult to
get cleare of that the Indians have difft. houses & villages to
which they remove frequently to get rid of them, and not withstanding
all their precautions, they never step into our hut
without leaveing sworms of those troublecom insects. Indeed
I scercely get to sleep half the night clear of the torments of
those flees, with the precaution of haveing my blankets serched
and the flees killed every day. The 1
st. of those insects we saw
on the Collumbia River was at the 1
st Great falls. I have the
satisfaction to say that we had but little rain in the course of
this day, not as much as would wet a person. but hard wind
and cloudy all day.
