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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... rapid passed in safety , called by the Indians the Falls . Account of the Indian houses in the neighbourhood . Another dreadful rapid passed without inju ry . Some account of the Chilluckittequaw Indians . Captain Clark exa- mines the ...
... rapid passed in safety , called by the Indians the Falls . Account of the Indian houses in the neighbourhood . Another dreadful rapid passed without inju ry . Some account of the Chilluckittequaw Indians . Captain Clark exa- mines the ...
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... rapid over which we dragged the canoes . We passed , a mile and a half further , two Indian lodges in a bend towards the right , and at six miles from our camp of last evening reached the . mouth of a brook on the left . Just above this ...
... rapid over which we dragged the canoes . We passed , a mile and a half further , two Indian lodges in a bend towards the right , and at six miles from our camp of last evening reached the . mouth of a brook on the left . Just above this ...
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... rapid , are three huts of Indians on the right , where we stopped and obtained in exchange for a few trifles some pashequa roots , five dogs and a small quantity of dried fish . We made our dinner of part of each of these articles , and ...
... rapid , are three huts of Indians on the right , where we stopped and obtained in exchange for a few trifles some pashequa roots , five dogs and a small quantity of dried fish . We made our dinner of part of each of these articles , and ...
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... rapid on the left in the neighbourhood of them . Within the following seven miles we passed a small rapid , and an island on the left , another stony island and a rapid on the right , just be- low which a brook comes in on the same side ...
... rapid on the left in the neighbourhood of them . Within the following seven miles we passed a small rapid , and an island on the left , another stony island and a rapid on the right , just be- low which a brook comes in on the same side ...
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... rapid , without meeting with any accident . Two miles below it we had another bad rapid , a mile beyond which is a large creek in a bend to the left . This we called Kimoo- enim creek . On leaving it the river soon became crowded with ...
... rapid , without meeting with any accident . Two miles below it we had another bad rapid , a mile beyond which is a large creek in a bend to the left . This we called Kimoo- enim creek . On leaving it the river soon became crowded with ...
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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.