[Lewis:]
Friday (Thursday) January 30th. 1806.
Nothing transpired today worthy of notice. we are agreeably
disappointed in our fuel which is altogether green pine.
we had supposed that it [would] burn but illy, but we have
found that by spliting it that it burns very well. The dress
of the Clatsops and others in this neighbourhood differs but
little from that discribed of the skillutes; they never wear
leggins or mockersons which the mildness of this climate I
presume has rendered in a great measure unnecessary; and
their being obliged to be frequently in the water also renders
those articles of dress inconvenient. they wear a hat of a conic
figure without a brim confined on the head by means of a
stri[n]g which passes under the chin and is attatched to the two
opsite sides of a secondary rim within the hat. the hat at
top terminates in a pointed knob of a connic form also,
or in this [ILLUSTRATION] shape. these hats are made of the bark of
cedar and beargrass [14]
wrought with the fingers so
closely that it casts the rain most effectually in the
shape which they give them for their own uce or that just
discribed. on these hats they work various figures of different
colours, but most commonly only black and white are employed.
these figures are faint representations of whales the
canoes and the harpoonneers striking them. sometimes squares
dimonds triangles &c. The form of knife which seems to be
prefered by these people is a double edged and double pointed
daggar; the handle being in the middle, and the blades of
unequal lengths, the longest usually from 9 to ten inches and the
shorter one from four to five. these knives they carry with them
habitually and most usually in the hand, sometimes exposed but
most usually particularly when in company with strangers, under
their robes with this knife they cut and clense their fish make
their arrows &c. this is somewhat the form of [ILLUSTRATION]
the knife A. is a small loop of a strong twine
through which they sometimes insert the thumb in order to
prevent it's being wrested from their hand.
