November 17th. Sunday 1805
A fair cool morning wind from the East. The tide rises
at this place 8 feet 6 inches and comes in with great waves
brakeing on the Sand beech on which we lay with great fury
Six hunters out this morning in serch of Deer & fowl.[38]
At half past 10 Clock Capt. Lewis returned haveing travesed
Haley Bay to Cape Disapointment and the Sea coast to the
North for Some distance. Several Chinnook Indians followed
Cap
t. L—, and a Canoe came up with roots mats &c. to Sell.
those Chinnooks made us a present of a rute boiled much
resembling the common liquorice in taste and Size:
[They call
cul-wha-mo][39]
in return for this root we gave more than double
the value to Satisfy their craveing dispost
n. It is a bad practice
to receive a present from those Indians as they are never
satisfied for what they recive in return if ten time the value
of the articles they gave. This
Chinnook Nation is about 400
Souls inhabid the countrey on the Small rivers which run into
the bay below us and on the Ponds to the N. W. of us, live
principally on fish and roots, they are well armed with fusees
and Sometimes kill Elk Deer and fowl, our hunters killed
to day 3 Deer, 4 brant and 2 Ducks, and inform me they Saw
Some Elk Sign. I directed all the men who wished to see
more of the main
Ocian to prepare themselves to Set out with
me early on tomorrow morning. The principal chief of the
Chinnooks & his family came up to See us this evening.
