History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean: Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. By Order of the Government of the United States, Band 2Pub by Bradford and Inskeep, 1814 |
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... Columbia river . Description of the Quicksand river . Some account of the Skilloot Indians . The party pass the river Coweliskee . Some account of the Wahkiacum Indians . Arrival on the borders of the Pacific . Disagreeable and critical ...
... Columbia river . Description of the Quicksand river . Some account of the Skilloot Indians . The party pass the river Coweliskee . Some account of the Wahkiacum Indians . Arrival on the borders of the Pacific . Disagreeable and critical ...
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... Columbia , and through the Rocky mountains . The party commence their return route . Dexterity of the Cathlamah Indians in carving . Description of the Coweliskee river . They experience much hospitality from the natives . An instance ...
... Columbia , and through the Rocky mountains . The party commence their return route . Dexterity of the Cathlamah Indians in carving . Description of the Coweliskee river . They experience much hospitality from the natives . An instance ...
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... Columbia rivers . Meet once more with the buffaloe and brown bear . Immense herds of buffa- loe discovered on the borders of Medicine river . The party encamp on Whitebear islands . Singular adventure that befel M'Neil . Captain Lewis ...
... Columbia rivers . Meet once more with the buffaloe and brown bear . Immense herds of buffa- loe discovered on the borders of Medicine river . The party encamp on Whitebear islands . Singular adventure that befel M'Neil . Captain Lewis ...
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... Columbia , at the head of nearly two hundred men : they formed a regular procession , keeping time to the noise , rather the music of their drums , which they accom- panied with their voices . As they advanced they formed a semicircle ...
... Columbia , at the head of nearly two hundred men : they formed a regular procession , keeping time to the noise , rather the music of their drums , which they accom- panied with their voices . As they advanced they formed a semicircle ...
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... Columbia is nine hundred and sixty yards wide , and Lewis's river five hundred and seventy - five ; but soon after they unite , the former widens to the space of from one to three miles , including the islands . From the point of ...
... Columbia is nine hundred and sixty yards wide , and Lewis's river five hundred and seventy - five ; but soon after they unite , the former widens to the space of from one to three miles , including the islands . From the point of ...
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abundant animal appearance bark berry black alder branch brant brown buffaloe camp canoes captain Clarke captain Lewis Cataract river chief Chinnooks Chopunnish Clarke's river Clatsops colour Columbia common cottonwood covered creek crossed deer dians distance ducks eight encamped entrance fallow deer falls feet fish fort Clatsop four geese grass half halted hills horses houses hundred hunt hunters inches Indians inhabitants island Killamucks killed Kooskooskee land last night Lewis's river Mandans Missouri morning mount Hood mount Jefferson mouth Multnomah nation natives neighbourhood Northwest company o'clock party passed pine plains prairie proceeded procure quamash quantities rain rapid reached resembling reside returned Ricaras rocks Rocky mountains roots route salmon sandbar sandhill crane seen shore side skins snow soon southwest species tail three miles timber trade tribe village visited wappatoo Wappatoo island weather wind yards wide
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Seite ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 135 - The treatment of women is often considered as the standard by which the moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no necessary relation to the virtues of the men, but is regulated wholly by their capacity to be useful. The Indians, whose treatment of the females is mildest, and who pay most deference to their opinions, are by no means the most distinguished for their virtues ; nor is this...
Seite 22 - It stands east and west, and neither of the extremities are closed. On entering the western end we observed a number of bodies wrapped carefully in leather robes, and arranged in rows on boards, which were then covered with a mat. This was the part destined for those who had...
Seite 386 - ... of a light-coloured gritty rock. The soil of the top is five or six feet deep, of a good quality, and covered with short grass. The Indians have carved the figures of animals and other objects on the sides of the rock, and on the top are raised two piles of stones.
Seite 278 - The usual outhouse, or retiring hut for females, is not omitted. Their chief subsistence is roots, and the noise made by the women in pounding them gives the hearer the idea of a nail factory. Yet...
Seite 57 - After being so long accustomed to the dreary nakedness of the country above. the change is as grateful to the eye, as it is useful in supplying us with fuel. Four miles from the village is a point of land on the right, where the hills become lower, but are still thickly timbered. The river is now about two miles wide, the current smooth and gentle, and the effect of the tide has been sensible since leaving the rapid.
Seite 2 - States or in the Rocky mountains. It was a hollow square of six or eight feet deep, formed in the river bank by damming up with mud the other three sides, and covering the whole completely except an aperture about two feet wide at the top. The bathers descend by this hole, taking with them a number of heated stones and jugs of water; and after being seated round the room, throw the water on the stones till the steam becomes of a temperature sufficiently high for their purposes.
Seite 163 - Indians prize more highly than horses. An elegant horse may be purchased of the natives for a few beads or other paltry trinkets which in the United States would not cost more than one or two dollars. The abundance and cheapness of horses will be extremely advantageous to those who may hereafter attempt the fur trade to the East Indies, by the way of Columbia river and the Pacific ocean.
Seite 509 - The thunder and lightning of the last evening was violent, a singular occurrence for the time of year; the loss of my thermometer I most sincerely regret. I am confident that the climate here, is much warmer than in the same parallel of latitude on the Atlantic ocean, though how many degrees it is now out of my power to determine.
Seite 433 - Observations and reflections on the present and future state of Upper Louisiana, in relation to the government of the Indian nations inhabiting that country, and the trade and intercourse with the same.