JOURNAL. 
morning, anti in a shprt time killed 2 deer. This day 
continued clear and pileasatit throughout. At 4 o'clock 
in the afternoon Capt. Clarke and his party returned 
to camp, and had killed a deer and some brants," 
They had been about 10 miles north of the cape, e.nd 
found the country along the seashore level, with 
spruce-pine timber, and some pi'airies _and ponds of 
water. They killed a remarktVoly large buzzard^ of a 
sprxies different from anj I had seen. It was 9 feet 
giCit)ss the wings, and 3 feet 10 inches from the bill to 
the tail. They found some pumice stones, which had 
been thrown out by the waves, of a quality superior 
to those on the Missouri ; also a number of shells of 
<llfFerent kinds. 
Thursday 2\sL A cloudy morning. About 8 o'clock 
^11 the natives left us. The wind blev/ so violent to day^ 
and the waves ran so high, that we could not set out 
on our return, which is our intention to do as soon a* 
the weather and water will permit. The season be- 
in^ so flu* advanced, ^^e wish to establish our winter 
quarters as soon as passible. One of the natives here 
had a robe of sea-otter skins, of the finest fur I ever 
saw ; which the Commanding OfBcers wanted very 
much, and oiTered two blankets for it, which the 
owner refused, and said Ke would not take five. He 
wanted beads of a blue colour, of which w^e had none^ 
but some that were on a belt belonging to our inter- 
preter's squaw ; so the.y gave him the belt for the 
skins. In the evening more of the natives came to 
our camp, and the night was very wet and disagree- 
able. . 
Friday 22nd, This was a rainy and stormy morn- 
ing ; and we v/ere not yet able to set out : the wind 
blew veiy hard from the south, and the river was 
rougher than it has been since we came here. At 
noon the tide v/as higher than common, and one 
of our canoes got among some logs, and was split* 
The rain and wind con tinji^d al] day violent. 
